Kokinshu #261
Thursday, 21 June 2012 07:02![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammer Written as an autumn poem.
Although the rain fell
not even a dewdrop dripped through --
so how can it be
that Umbrella Taking Hill
was dyed with these autumn leaves?
ame furedo
tsuyu mo moraji o
kasatori no
yama wa ikade ka
momiji somekemu
---L.
Although the rain fell
not even a dewdrop dripped through --
so how can it be
that Umbrella Taking Hill
was dyed with these autumn leaves?
—8 June 2012
Original by Ariwara no Motokata. "Umbrella Taking Hill" is Mt. Kasatori, but commentaries disagree over whether it's the one near Uji somewhat south of Kyoto or one in the closer southeast hills whose name was changed to Mt. Daigo in the 870s. Whichever, it's another of Motokata's weak word-punning conceits. Fortunately for the reader, this question doesn't get answered. (In case you're wondering, the "dripped" is indeed the same verb as in the previous poem.)ame furedo
tsuyu mo moraji o
kasatori no
yama wa ikade ka
momiji somekemu
---L.