Gosenshu 9

後撰和歌集　巻第九　恋一

The GSS has six love volumes in comparison to the KKS' five. The KKS' love volumes focused primarily on abstract poems, without prose prefaces, that used various images to express feelings associated with love. The GSS focuses on poems sent to lovers in actual situations, and features a large number of exchanges. The KKS also arranged the poems to follow the sequence of a love affair; from the initial feelings to the end of the relationship. The GSS' organization is less clear, but seems to involve grouping poems with similar imagery together.

507

からうじて逢あひしりて侍り・ける人に、慎つつむことありて、逢あひがたく侍り・ければ

There was a person who he met after great effort, and there was something to be cautious about, then it became hard to meet.

源宗于朝臣

Lord Minamoto no Mineyuki

あづま地の　さやの中山　中々に　あひ見てのちぞ　わびしかりける

adumadi no                        On the eastern road
saya no nakayama                  Nakayama of Saya
nakanaka ni                       On the other hand
ahi-mite noti zo                  It is after we have met
wabisi-kari-keru                  That I suffer all the more.

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