Kokinshu #43
Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:29![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammer Written on plum trees blooming beside the waters.
Shall I, every spring,
see the flowing river
as blooming flowers
and once again soak my sleeve
in waters I cannot pick?
harugoto ni
nagaruru kawa o
hana to mite
orarenu mizu ni
sode ya nurenamu
BTW, someone has written Kokinshu fanfiction.
---L.
Shall I, every spring,
see the flowing river
as blooming flowers
and once again soak my sleeve
in waters I cannot pick?
—31 October 2010
Original by Ise. According to the headnote in Ise's collected poems, the water is a stream in Emperor Uda's palace. "Blooming" is my addition, eked out from the headnote, to contrast with the next poem.harugoto ni
nagaruru kawa o
hana to mite
orarenu mizu ni
sode ya nurenamu
BTW, someone has written Kokinshu fanfiction.
---L.