Kokinshu #214
Monday, 5 March 2012 12:30![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammer A poem from the poetry contest at the house of Prince Koresada.
This mountain village
seems all the more lonely in,
especially, autumn.
I'm woken again and again
by the cries of belling stags.
yamazato wa
aki koso koto ni
wabishikere
shika no naku ne ni
me o samashitsutsu
---L.
This mountain village
seems all the more lonely in,
especially, autumn.
I'm woken again and again
by the cries of belling stags.
—3 February + 5 March 2012
Original by Mibu no Tadamine. And from migrating geese we move to mating deer. Stags of the sika deer native to Japan are remarkably vocal in mating season, and their calls are another autumnal symbol.yamazato wa
aki koso koto ni
wabishikere
shika no naku ne ni
me o samashitsutsu
---L.