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Kokinshu #458
Tuesday, 15 October 2013 07:03 Cape Kara (Karasaki)
How long ago
did you cross ahead of me
to over yonder?
On the path of the waves,
not even a wake remains.
kano kata ni
itsu kara saki ni
watarikemu
namiji wa ato mo
nokorazarikeri
---L.
How long ago
did you cross ahead of me
to over yonder?
On the path of the waves,
not even a wake remains.
—7 October 2013
Original by Abo no Tsunemi, who appears in court records as a scholar and middling courtier between 893 and his death in 912. This is his only poem in the Kokinshu. ¶ Cape Kara is on the southwest shore of Lake Biwa in modern Ôtsu City. To my Western ear this sounds like an elegy, but Japanese commentaries don't mention the possibility.kano kata ni
itsu kara saki ni
watarikemu
namiji wa ato mo
nokorazarikeri
---L.