Kokinshu #380
Thursday, 11 April 2013 07:47![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammer Written and sent to someone traveling to Michinoku.
Even when you are
in a distance where white clouds
pile up eight-layered,
do not shut out the heart
of one who will long for you.
shirakumo no
yae ni kasanaru
ochi nite mo
omoamu hito ni
kokoro hedatsu na
---L.
Even when you are
in a distance where white clouds
pile up eight-layered,
do not shut out the heart
of one who will long for you.
—7 April 2013
Original by Ki no Tsurayuki. For Michinoku, see #368. (One wonders, given the destinations in these choices, whether Kyushu was not an fashionably elegant posting.) Another use of eight as generically large -- rather elegantly here, though I cannot but feel that this was written with more grace than sincerity. Still, the assumption of, rather than the insistence on, a traveling heart is a nice touch. Omitted-but-understood verb: "are."shirakumo no
yae ni kasanaru
ochi nite mo
omoamu hito ni
kokoro hedatsu na
---L.