Kokinshu #94
Friday, 3 June 2011 07:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammer Written as a poem of spring.
Why on earth do you
conceal Mt. Miwa like that,
O springtime haze?
Flowers we don't know about
are probably blooming there.ripped off from quoting Man'yoshu I:18, where it's clouds who conceal the mountain. It's hard to read the unmarked spring haze as anything but a direct address. "There" is interpolation for rhythm and clarity.
miwa yama o
shika mo kakusu ka
harugasumi
hito ni shirarenu
hana ya sakuramu
---L.
Why on earth do you
conceal Mt. Miwa like that,
O springtime haze?
Flowers we don't know about
are probably blooming there.
—1 June 2011
Original by Ki no Tsurayuki. Mt. Miwa is in Nara Prefecture. The first two lines aremiwa yama o
shika mo kakusu ka
harugasumi
hito ni shirarenu
hana ya sakuramu
---L.