Lines by Ono no Komachi
Ono no Komachi
小野小町
Japanese poet · c. 9th c.–9th c.
Ono no Komachi was a waka poet of the ninth century, one of the Six Poetic Immortals. Little is certain about her life beyond the poems collected in the Kokinshū.
The colour of the flowers has faded while I gazed out idly at the long rains, and my life passed by in the world.
花の色は 移りにけりな 徒に 我が身世にふる ながめせしまに
Kokinshū, poem 113 (Hyakunin Isshu 9)
Planet-X translation, 2026 · Source (opens the digitised edition in a new tab)