My Translation


When I compare

My heart since

Our rendezvous

To what it was before—

It is as if I hadn’t loved.


Original Japanese

Pronunciation



権中納言敦忠

Gon Chunagon Atsutada



逢ひ見ての

Ai mite no

後の心に

Nochi no kokoro ni

くらぶれば

Kurabureba

むかしは物を

Mukashi wa mono o

思はざりけり

Omowazari keri


Literal Translation


[Meet/date/tryst/rendezvous] [see/hope/try] ’s/of

[Later/afterwards/since/future] ’s/of heart to

[Compare/compete/vie] when

[Old time] thing

Feeling not had



Year: 
2011