Kokinshu #432
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lnhammer Mountain persimmon tree (yamagaki no ki)
Autumn has arrived.
Will it be now that crickets
in our brushwood fence
start crying night after night?
-- with this chill in the wind.
aki wa kinu
ima ya magaki no
kirigirisu
yo na yo na nakamu
kaze no samusa ni
---L.
Autumn has arrived.
Will it be now that crickets
in our brushwood fence
start crying night after night?
-- with this chill in the wind.
—8 July 2013
Original author unknown. While persimmons are typically thought of as an autumn topic for their fruit, they're also an uncommon mid-summer topic for their flowers. Even as a hidden-topic poem, this would not be out of place in Book IV -- maybe not the best poem there, but as good as many. I especially like the rhythm given by the detached adverbial last line.aki wa kinu
ima ya magaki no
kirigirisu
yo na yo na nakamu
kaze no samusa ni
---L.