Kokinshu #320
Sunday, 21 October 2012 07:39![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammer (Topic unknown.)
Here in this river,
autumn leaves are floating by --
deep in the mountains
the water from melting snow
must now be increasing.
kono kawa ni
momijiba nagaru
okuyama no
yukige no mizu zo
ima masarurashi
---L.
Here in this river,
autumn leaves are floating by --
deep in the mountains
the water from melting snow
must now be increasing.
—26 September 2012
(Original author unknown.) And autumn leaves continue to echo forward, though possibly here brown ones long on the ground are intended. A "reasoning technique" poem using a pattern we've seen many times before -- and as well, the contrast between disappearance and increase isn't as neatly contrasted as in #319.kono kawa ni
momijiba nagaru
okuyama no
yukige no mizu zo
ima masarurashi
---L.