Kenneth Rexroth's translation of Yosano Akiko tanka vii

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Akiko Yosano

Yosano Akiko's tanka, which is vii on page 9 in the Kenneth Rexroth "100 More" volume of Japanese poetry in translation, in the original is :

とき髪に
室むつまじの
百合のかをり
消えをあやぶむ
夜の淡紅色よ

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Kenneth Rexroth's translation of Yosano Akiko No. xiv

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The Yosano Akiko poem xiv in Rexroth's "100 More" Japanese poems in translation volume is 

乳ぶさおさへ
神秘のとばり
そとけりぬ
ここなる花の
紅ゐ濃き

Note :  ゐ is read as ぞ

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Kenneth Rexroth fifth Akiko Yosano

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The tanka V in the Rexroth "More" volume is

くろ髪の千すぢの髪のみだれ髪かつおもひみだれおもひみだるる

Without the 3 original kanji, the wit is lost.

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