KKS 46 - Revision history

Fujiwaranoteika at 15:19, 17 June 2026

2026-06-17T15:19:39Z

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	* ''[[Teika hachidaishō]]''		* ''[[Teika hachidaishō]]''

Fujiwaranoteika at 15:16, 17 June 2026

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	~~梅がゝを袖にうつしてとゞめてば春はすぐともかたみならまし~~		梅が香を袖にうつしてとどめてば春は過ぐとも形見ならまし

	{{PoemPair		{{PoemPair
	\|orig=		\|orig=
	<poem>		<poem>
			mume ga ka o
			sode ni utsushi-te
			todome-te-ba
			haru wa sugu to mo
			katami nara-mashi

	</poem>		</poem>
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	<poem>		<poem>
			I wish that I could
			Move the plum scent to my sleeves
			And hold it there
			Then even after spring passed
			It would be a memento.
	</poem>		</poem>
	}}		}}
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	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

			;Move the plum scent
			:This suggests the infusion of incense into clothing.

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	== Analysis ==		== Analysis ==

			This poem creates a sense of loss and regret for the falling of the flowers, without explicitly mentioning the feelings or the actual petals falling. While Katagiri sees this as a typical sentiment of the age, other commentators are more generous in their praise of the poem. They point to the use of "after spring passed" to imply the falling of flowers (with Kubota(1937) even suggesting that the poet is behaving as if plums are the only important flowers of spring). The concluding ''mashi'', indicating a counterfactual idea, emphasizes the impossibility of holding on to the transient spring image.

			Kagawa Kageki (''Seigi''), questioned why the poet is "unknown" given that the compilers participated in the poetry competition, and the compilation of the KKS was not that long afterwards. He connects this with other problematic "poet unknown" attributions in the collection and assumes that there must be some specific reason behind it – for instance, the poet may have been stripped of his position by the Emperor, or poet was very high ranking and thus the compilers concealed their name out of respect. A number of modern commentaries quote Kageki’s opinion without comment. However, Katagiri explains that the poetry competition in question involved both new compositions and older existing poems, and that this poem was probably drawn from the same sources as the other "poet unknown" poems in the collection. This theory is also supported by the rather different versions of the poem found in the ''Shinsen waka'' and the ''Kokin waka rokujō'', a typical situation with these old poems.

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== Text ==

寛平御時<ruby>后<rt>きさい</rt></ruby>の宮の<ruby>歌合<rt>うたあはせ</rt></ruby>の歌

A poem at the [[Empress' Poetry Competition in the Kampyō era]]

よみ人しらず

Poet unknown

梅がゝを袖にうつしてとゞめてば春はすぐともかたみならまし

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<poem>

</poem>

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== Notes ==

Other sources:

* ''[[Shinsen waka]]'' | ''[[Kokin waka rokujō]]''
* ''[[Teika hachidaishō]]''

== Analysis ==

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