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Kokinshu #213
Thursday, 1 March 2012 07:02 Written on hearing wild geese call.
Melancholy thoughts
come one after another:
the sounds of wild geese
crying as they cross over,
each night after autumn night.
uki koto o
omoi-tsuranete
kari ga ne no
naki koso watare
aki no yo na yo na
---L.
Melancholy thoughts
come one after another:
the sounds of wild geese
crying as they cross over,
each night after autumn night.
—1 February 2012
Original by Ôshikôchi no Mitsune. Like #210, the sentence ends with the fourth line, leaving the last as a dangling adverb. Stealth pun (not quite a pivot): buried in tsuranete, "(coming) one after another," is tsura, the "line" of flying geese. The effect is not just that a goose call spurs a sad thought, but that metaphorically each goose is one, and that Mitsune cries as well.uki koto o
omoi-tsuranete
kari ga ne no
naki koso watare
aki no yo na yo na
---L.