Kokinshu #192
Tuesday, 17 January 2012 07:19![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammer (Topic unknown.)
It seems that the night
has deepened into midnight:
a wild goose's call
can be heard in the sky where
the moon appears overhead.
sayonaka to
yo wa fukenurashi
kari ga ne no
kikoyuru sora ni
tsuki wataru miyu
---L.
It seems that the night
has deepened into midnight:
a wild goose's call
can be heard in the sky where
the moon appears overhead.
—8 January 2012
(Original author unknown.) Although the Kokinshu preface claims the editors followed the directive to collect poems not in the Man'yoshu, compiled 150 years before, this poem is also found there (IX:1701, part of a collection dubiously attributed to Kakinomoto no Hitomaro). Oops. Technically, it says the moon is seen in a sky where a goose can be heard, but reversing this maintains the image order. I went with a single goose match the loneliness of the wee small hours of the morning.sayonaka to
yo wa fukenurashi
kari ga ne no
kikoyuru sora ni
tsuki wataru miyu
---L.