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Kokinshu #229
Friday, 6 April 2012 07:25 Topic unknown.
If I were to lodge
in a meadow of many
maidenflowers,
won't I, and for no reason,
get a rep for fickleness?
ominaeshi
ôkaru nobe ni
yadoriseba
ayanaku ada no
na o ya tachinamu
---L.
If I were to lodge
in a meadow of many
maidenflowers,
won't I, and for no reason,
get a rep for fickleness?
—5 April 2012
Original by Ono no Yoshiki, a grandson of Ono no Takamura (see #335). His birth date is unknown, but he appears in court records as a rising young courtier, including an inherited office as an imperial scribe, between 887 and his apparently early death in 902. He has two poems in the Kokinshu. ¶ Placed by the editors as a somewhat frivolous response to the previous. More grammar confusion: why is it ôkaru instead of ôki? I thought the -kari forms were used only with auxiliaries.ominaeshi
ôkaru nobe ni
yadoriseba
ayanaku ada no
na o ya tachinamu
---L.