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Kokinshu #258
Friday, 15 June 2012 07:05 (from the same contest)
On autumn nights,
maybe it's that dew settles
just as dewdrops, while
it's the tears of the wild geese
that are dyeing the fields?
aki no yo no
tsuyu o ba tsuyu to
okinagara
kari no namida ya
nobe o somuramu
---L.
On autumn nights,
maybe it's that dew settles
just as dewdrops, while
it's the tears of the wild geese
that are dyeing the fields?
—7 June 2012
Original by Mibu no Tadamine. One possible answer to the previous. For goose tears and dewdrops, see also #221; the tears are, naturally, a product of an implied naku/call/weep pun. It's debated whether the tears are supposedly replacing or augmenting the dew. I'm forced toward the former because the only reading of the text that makes sense to me requires adding adding the interpretive "just."aki no yo no
tsuyu o ba tsuyu to
okinagara
kari no namida ya
nobe o somuramu
---L.