Hyakunin Isshu #15
Tuesday, 16 March 2010 07:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammer It was for your sake
that I went in the spring fields
to pluck these young greens,
and all the while the snowflakes
kept falling on my wide sleeves.
kimi ga tame
haru no no ni idete
wakana tsumu
wa ga koromode ni
yuki wa furitsutsu
---L.
that I went in the spring fields
to pluck these young greens,
and all the while the snowflakes
kept falling on my wide sleeves.
—14 March 2010
Original by Emperor Koukou, sent with a gift of spring herbs (eaten as part of the New Years ceremonies, which in the Chinese lunisolar calendar of the time fell usually somewhere in February) some time before his accession in 884 at the age of 54. Sometimes something straightforward, centered on a simple contrast of green and white, is refreshing to work with. A koromode is the sleeve (sode) of a koromo, a type of formal robe.kimi ga tame
haru no no ni idete
wakana tsumu
wa ga koromode ni
yuki wa furitsutsu
---L.