Kokinshu #292

[lnhammer]

Written while lingering in the shelter of trees at Urin Temple.

    Here under a tree
visited by the most lonely,
    the shelter I once
relied upon is no more --
the autumn leaves are scattered.

—15-19 August 2012

Original by Henjô. For Urin, see #75. Because Henjô's friend Tsuneyasu (see #95) died there in 869, giving Henjô control of the temple, this is sometimes read as a lament for his death. Since some sort of personal statement seems likely, given Henjô's connection to Urin, "I" is as good a guess as for the omitted subject.


wabibito no
wakite tachiyoru
ko no moto wa
tanomu kage naku
momiji chirikeri

---L.