No. 82
Misfortune
火発応連天
新愁惹旧愆
欲求千里外
要渡更無船
In English
- Fire breaks out and seems to reach the sky
- new sorrow stirs up old wrongs
- you wish to seek beyond a thousand miles
- but when you need to cross, there is no boat
- Meaning
- Anyone seeking what lies a thousand miles away will find no boat when it is time to cross. With a fresh worry dragging old mistakes back into view, the nearby tasks deserve your attention before any distant hope.
- What to do today
- Take care of one small thing left undone that has nagged at you for a while.
- A word from the capybara
- With no boat around, wandering the neighborhood will do nicely.
What 'Misfortune' means (glossary)
The explanations added by each temple differ. The poems and fortunes follow an Edo-period printed edition.
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