KKS 36 - Revision history

Fujiwaranoteika at 14:26, 12 June 2026

2026-06-12T14:26:50Z

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	東三条の左の<ruby>大臣<rt>おほいまうちきみ</rt></ruby>		東三条の左の<ruby>大臣<rt>おほいまうちきみ</rt></ruby>

	Higashi Sanjō Minister of the Left ([[Minamoto no Tokiwa]])		Higashi Sanjō Minister of the Left (Minamoto no Tokiwa)

	鶯の笠に縫ふてふ梅花折りてかざゝん老隠くるやと		鶯の笠に縫ふてふ梅花折りてかざゝん老隠くるやと
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	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

			;Minamoto no Tokiwa
			:源常 (812-854). He was a son of the Saga Emperor, made a commoner with the Minamoto surname. He attained the 2nd rank and the position of Minister of the Left. After his death at the age of 43 he was posthumously promoted to 1st rank. A good number of manuscripts label him in this poem as Minister of the Right, which was a position he held earlier in his life.

	;attach it		;attach it

Fujiwaranoteika at 14:19, 12 June 2026

2026-06-12T14:19:48Z

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	== Text ==		== Text ==

			梅の花を折りてよめる

			He broke off a plum flower and read this

			東三条の左の<ruby>大臣<rt>おほいまうちきみ</rt></ruby>

			Higashi Sanjō Minister of the Left ([[Minamoto no Tokiwa]])

			鶯の笠に縫ふてふ梅花折りてかざゝん老隠くるやと

	{{PoemPair		{{PoemPair
	\|orig=		\|orig=
	<poem>		<poem>
			uguisu no
			kasa ni nuu chō
			mume no hana
			ori-te kazasa-n
			oi kakuru ya to
	</poem>		</poem>

	\|trans=		\|trans=
	<poem>		<poem>
			They say the warblers
			Weave hats out of them
			Plum blossoms
			I'll break one off and attach it
			Perhaps to hide my age.
	</poem>		</poem>
	}}		}}
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	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

			;attach it
			:Specifically, put it in his cap.

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	== Analysis ==		== Analysis ==

			The plum poems move away from scent to their other aspects. This seems to be a ''jukkai'' poem (one that expresses the poet's feelings) about the poet's age. However, Tokiwa was only 43 when he died. Commenters such as Kaneko(1927) either say that he was starting to feel old age, that Heian people felt old age younger, or that spring was simply a time when everyone felt their age since you added one year in spring. Katagiri takes an entirely different viewpoint; he connects this poem to various ''okina'' (old man) dances -- thus Tokiwa was simply using this as a celebratory symbol of long life rather than a literal expression of his age. This idea gains support from the ''Kokin waka rokujō'', which classified this poem in the "old man" category.

			Takeoka notes the shift from the fantasy world of the first two lines to the reality of the last two lines, around the central pivot of "plum blossoms." The sentiment of the poem is based on [[KKS 1081]] which is also a Saibara folk song. Fujiwara no Kiyosuke (''Ogishō'') says that the warblers jumping back and forth in the branches seems like weaving, and so they are said to "weave" branches. Since then, commentators both pre-modern and modern have variously supported this idea, or said that this is simply an evocative image because warblers spend time around plum trees and the plum blossoms can look like hats.

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	[[Category:Spring]]		[[Category:Spring]]
			[[Category:Warblers]]
			[[Category:Plums]]
			[[Category:Age]]

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== Notes ==

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* ''[[Kokin waka rokujō]]'' | ''[[Shūka daitai]]''

== Analysis ==

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