For You, My Love Poem by Ki no Tsurayuki

For You, My Love

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For you, my love
Brings forth tears, did it not
My Chinese robe
About the breast
Would burn with the fire of my passion.

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Fabrizio Frosini 28 June 2016

this waka was composed at a competition held by the Empress during the Kampyô era (889-898)

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Fabrizio Frosini 28 June 2016

君こふる涙しなくは唐衣むねのあたりは色もえなまし kimi koFuru namida si naku Fa karakoromo mune no atari Fa iro moenamasi For you, my love Brings forth tears, did it not My Chinese robe About the breast Would burn with the fire of my passion Ki no Tsurayuki 紀貫之 in the KOKINSHŪ - KKS XII: 572

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