J314 Masks: an Intertextual Reference

“You sound like that poem from the Tales of Ise” p. 112

Did you come, I wonder

Or was it I who went?

I scarcely know--

Was it a dream or reality

Did I sleep or wake?

kimi ya koshi

ware ya yukiken

Omoezu

yume ka utsutsu ka

nete ka samete ka

did you come to me

or did I go to you

I cannot now recall

was it a dream reality

was I sleeping or awake

Ariwara no Narihira

from the Ise Mongatari

orginally from the Kokinshu # 645