Kokinshu #231
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lnhammer (from the same contest)
The maidenflowers:
impossible to meet
except in autumn
-- even though they don't grow on
the banks of Heaven's River ...
aki narade
au koto kataki
ominaeshi
ama no kawara ni
oinu mono yue
---L.
The maidenflowers:
impossible to meet
except in autumn
-- even though they don't grow on
the banks of Heaven's River ...
—9 April 2012
Original by Fujiwara no Sadakata (873?–932), who eventually rose to become a high-ranking minister -- in part through family connections, as his sister was Emperor Daigo's mother. This is his only poem in the Kokinshu. ¶ Yes, that's a Tanabata reference. Yes, no main verb. Yes, it is possible to invert the sentence order of a grammatical fragment -- who knew?aki narade
au koto kataki
ominaeshi
ama no kawara ni
oinu mono yue
---L.