Kokinshu #128
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lnhammer Written in the Third Month on having not heard the bush warbler's voice for a long time.
Because the flowers
he tried to detain with song
now are no more,
even the bush warbler must
have at last become listless.
naki-tomuru
hana shi nakereba
uguisu mo
hate wa monouku
narinuberanari
---L.
Because the flowers
he tried to detain with song
now are no more,
even the bush warbler must
have at last become listless.
—31 July 2011
Original by Ki no Tsurayuki. The lunisolar Third Month, roughly early-April to early-May, was the last month of spring. (In the headnote, I'm a little confused by hisashiu, an adjective with an unfamiliar ending I can't find in my grammar books -- hisashiku ("for a long time") would nicely orthodox, but all the texts I've checked have -u.)naki-tomuru
hana shi nakereba
uguisu mo
hate wa monouku
narinuberanari
---L.
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Date: 29 August 2011 02:25 (UTC)---L.