Kokinshu #420
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lnhammer Written at Mt. Tamuke when the Suzaku Retired Emperor [Uda] journeyed to Nara.
For this journey now
I couldn't even bring prayer strips.
On Offering Hill,
a brocade of autumn leaves --
may the gods find them pleasing.
kono tabi wa
nusa mo toriaezu
tamukeyama
momiji no nishiki
kami no manimani
---L.
For this journey now
I couldn't even bring prayer strips.
On Offering Hill,
a brocade of autumn leaves --
may the gods find them pleasing.
—31 December 2009, rev 3-9 April 2010, 28 June 2013
(Previously posted as Hyakunin Isshu #24 in a grammatically mangled form.) Original by Sugawara no Michizane. In the headnote, Uda is called Suzaku after his residence (see #230), and he took this particular excursion in the Tenth Month of 898. Ambiguities: Tamuke ("offering") could be a generic place or the name of a specific shrine along the road to Nara -- commentaries have extensively debated the issue -- and tabi could mean "trip," "occasion," or, pivotwise, both. For leaves as prayer strips, see #298ff.kono tabi wa
nusa mo toriaezu
tamukeyama
momiji no nishiki
kami no manimani
---L.