Kokinshu #291
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lnhammer (Topic unknown.)
The warp of frost and
weft of dew must be fragile.
The very moment
the brocade of the mountains
weaves itself, it comes apart.
shimo no tate
tsuyu no nuki koso
yowakarashi
yama no nishiki no
oreba katsu chiru
---L.
The warp of frost and
weft of dew must be fragile.
The very moment
the brocade of the mountains
weaves itself, it comes apart.
—13 August 2012
Original by Fujiwara no Sekio. It may be my inexperience, but that's a lovely conceit I've never seen before -- in any language. I'd find it easier to read, though, if the brocade were the direct object of the active transitive verb "weave" instead of explicitly marked as its subject. The brocade is, of course, the rich covering of colored leaves.shimo no tate
tsuyu no nuki koso
yowakarashi
yama no nishiki no
oreba katsu chiru
---L.