Kokinshu #54
Saturday, 22 January 2011 08:35![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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If only there were
no waterfall down these rocks!
-- then, cherry blossoms,
I would come pluck your flowers
for those who cannot see you.
ishibashiru
taki naku mogana
sakurabana
taorite mo komu
minu hito no tame
---L.
If only there were
no waterfall down these rocks!
-- then, cherry blossoms,
I would come pluck your flowers
for those who cannot see you.
—11 November 2010
Original author unknown. Ishibashiru ("running [over] rock") is a pillow-word/epithet for waterfalls and other kinds of rushing water, which does add to the sense of the stream being a barrier. As such, this hearkens back to the mountain setting of #50-51.ishibashiru
taki naku mogana
sakurabana
taorite mo komu
minu hito no tame
---L.