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Kokinshu #386
Monday, 6 May 2013 08:46 (from the same party)
If you're to rise up
along with the autumn mist
and depart from us,
I should keep loving you with
longings that (too) never clear.
akigiri no
tomo ni tachiidete
wakarenaba
harenu omoi ni
koi ya wataramu
---L.
If you're to rise up
along with the autumn mist
and depart from us,
I should keep loving you with
longings that (too) never clear.
— 6 May 2013
Original by Taira no Motonori. His birthdate is not recorded, but given a stint in the imperial guards starting in 897 and the career of his father, Taira no Nakaki (see #1048), it was probably around 880. After a promising career start, he disappears from the records after 908 and is presumed to have died around then. This is his only poem in the Kokinshu. ¶ Pivot-word: tachi- is again the mist's "rise" and the "de-" of Nochikage's departure -- a double-meaning carried through the poem by a verb for "clearing" used of both weather and emotions. Omitted-but-understood, added to bring out this last: "too." The last line (my l.4) is again the same as #180 (and the second line of #383).akigiri no
tomo ni tachiidete
wakarenaba
harenu omoi ni
koi ya wataramu
---L.