Hi,
Years ago I came across the quote:
"Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there"
Since finding this quote it has always meant a lot to me. After looking online I found that it was actually a poem written by Otomo no Yakamochi and in a book I found that the actual poem was:
What anguish it is
to meet you only in dreams
when I wake at night
and reach out to touch you
but my hand finds nothing
ime no ai wa/ kurushikarikeri/ odorokite/ kakisagure-domo/ te ni mo furenenba
I recently asked a Japanese friend what this poem looked like in Japanese script , and she told me that it very old Japanese that
is not commonly used today. I would love to have this painted in the original old Japanese script to hang on my wall, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Would anyone be able to help?
Kind Regards,
Zain
Years ago I came across the quote:
"Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there"
Since finding this quote it has always meant a lot to me. After looking online I found that it was actually a poem written by Otomo no Yakamochi and in a book I found that the actual poem was:
What anguish it is
to meet you only in dreams
when I wake at night
and reach out to touch you
but my hand finds nothing
ime no ai wa/ kurushikarikeri/ odorokite/ kakisagure-domo/ te ni mo furenenba
I recently asked a Japanese friend what this poem looked like in Japanese script , and she told me that it very old Japanese that
is not commonly used today. I would love to have this painted in the original old Japanese script to hang on my wall, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Would anyone be able to help?
Kind Regards,
Zain