GSS 805
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Text
物いひける女のかゞみをかりてかへすとて
He had borrowed a mirror from a woman he was seeing, and returned it.
よみ人しらず
Poet unknown
(100r) 影にだに 見えもやすると たのみつる かひなくこひを ます鏡哉
I relied on it thinking that just maybe I would see you even as an image, but it was a worthless mirror that only increased my longing (so I am returning it).
Textual notes
- 物いひける] ものの給ひける（安・堀・慶・増ィ・新ィ）、ものの給ひなどしける（雲・慶・新ィ）
- 女の] 女に（堀・慶・新ィ）
- 影にだに] 影をだに（雲）
- たのみつる] たのみつつ（堀）、たのめつる（正保ィ・標ィ・旧国ィ）. Norinaga commented on this reading, saying that the め version was wrong.
- こひを] こひも（堀）
Notes
- 物いひける女
- A woman he had relations with.
- 見えもやする
- The もや indicates "just maybe" (ひょっとして)
- こひをます鏡
- A play on 恋を増す and ます鏡, originally meaning "clear mirror" but later just a poetic word for mirror.
