Hyakunin Isshu #77
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lnhammer Although a cascade
blocked by a boulder in its
ever-swift current
divides, I do believe that
like it we shall meet again.
se o hayami
iwa ni sekaruru
takigawa no
warete mo sue ni
awamu to zo omou
---L.
blocked by a boulder in its
ever-swift current
divides, I do believe that
like it we shall meet again.
—23 July 2010
Original by Emperor Sutoku, who was exiled to Sanuki Province (now Kagawa Prefecture) for being on the losing side of the Hôgen Disturbance. Without an explicit subject specifying what meets in the end, this could be a love poem ("we shall meet") or a simple nature poem ("the currents shall meet"), and given the politics, some take the rock for a symbol for Tadamichi (#76). I read it as the first.se o hayami
iwa ni sekaruru
takigawa no
warete mo sue ni
awamu to zo omou
---L.