Hyakunin Isshu #58
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lnhammer As the winds blow
through Ima's bamboo-grass field
on Mount Arima,
susurrating -- so --
how could I forget that man?
arimayama
ina no sasahara
kaze fukeba
ide soyo hito o
wasure ya wa suru
---L.
through Ima's bamboo-grass field
on Mount Arima,
susurrating -- so --
how could I forget that man?
—19 April 2010
Original by Daini no Sanmi, daughter of Murasaki Shikibu (#57) and like her a lady-in-waiting to Empress Shôshi. Her personal name is known, but not whether it was pronounced Katako or Kenshi. The Daini of her use-name is a title (assistant governor) of her husband, while Sanmi ("Third Rank") is one of her own, received for being wet-nurse to Emperor GoReizei. Arima is in what's now the northern Kobe. For the record, the archaic particle ya wa indicating an ironic statement is difficult to render directly -- or indeed at all. Rhetorical question seemed better than "I'm sooo going to forget him."arimayama
ina no sasahara
kaze fukeba
ide soyo hito o
wasure ya wa suru
---L.