Hyakunin Isshu Oracle

No.84 藤原清輔朝臣「ながらへば また此のごろや しのばれむ 憂しと見し世ぞ 今は恋しき」

ながらへば また此のごろや しのばれむ 憂しと見し世ぞ 今は恋しき

藤原清輔朝臣

I miss the years I hated — so I will miss this one

I miss the years I hated — so I will miss this one

キーワードKeywords

Living OnFuture NostalgiaBad Days MissedTime ShiftPerspective
★★ Miscellaneous

藤原清輔朝臣Fujiwara no Kiyosuke — No. 84 公卿Court Noble

A scholarly noble who left numerous treatises, and a poem about how time revises our judgments.

ながらへば またこのごろや しのばれむ うしとみしよぞ いまはこひしき

Nagaraeba Mata kono goro ya Shinobaren Ushi to mishi yo zo Ima wa koishiki

現代語訳Modern Japanese

コンセプトConcept

情景The Scene

He notices that the years he once called unbearable are now the ones he misses. From that he draws a conclusion about the present: if he lives long enough, he will miss this too — including the part that hurts now.

日本の美意識Japanese Aesthetic

Mujō (Impermanence as Law)

The poem treats its own feeling as data and extrapolates. Recognizing that today’s judgment will be revised is a way of surviving it — and a good reason to record it accurately now.