KKS 62+63 - Revision history

Fujiwaranoteika at 18:43, 7 July 2026

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	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

			;someone who had not visited
			:Since the subsequent poem identifies this person as Narihira, some commentators have suggested textual corruption or that someone added Narihira's name later to what was originally an entirely anonymous exchange. GSS contains a number of poetry exchanges that are written just like this one, so it may simply be that this was a standard way to set up such an exchange.

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	== Analysis ==		== Analysis ==

	This is the first poem exchange in ~~the~~ KKS. Exchanges are comparatively rare in this collection, with only 18 in the entire compilation. This is possibly because ~~the~~ KKS was attempting to focus on "public" poetry for reasons of prestige. It is notable that 7 of the 18 exchanges involve Narihira, with 5 of those being in the love volumes.		The basic idea of these poems is that the house owner expresses their own feeling of annoyance at Narihira's long absence by personifying the flowers. Narihira's response indicates that he has come at the perfect time to enjoy the flowers (and the person's house).

			This is the first poem exchange in KKS. Exchanges are comparatively rare in this collection, with only 18 in the entire compilation. This is possibly because KKS was attempting to focus on "public" poetry for reasons of prestige. It is notable that 7 of the 18 exchanges involve Narihira, with 5 of those being in the love volumes. This may indicate that some version of the ''Tales of Ise'' was already circulating and had garnered some prestige by the time KKS was compiled.

			This exchange is the single example in the seasonal volumes, and much of the annotation about the poem is concerned with whether this should be read with a love meaning or not. Like a number of Narihira's poems, this exchange also occurs in the ''Tales of Ise,'' (section 17), but the prose setting there is simply a rewording of the KKS setting and does not provide any additional information.

			The primary motivation for reading this without a love meaning is the belief that the compilers would not have included a love exchange in the seasonal volumes. Under this theory, the anonymous writer of 62 is most likely a man. The focus then is mostly on the beauty of the blossoms, with the feelings of the people in the background. The imagery that seems like love imagery is simply homosocial jesting between friends, or purely personifying the cherry tree as an abandoned woman. This theory goes back to the 15th century ''Ryōdō kikigaki.'' It is possible that the initial rejection of the love idea was going against the medieval commentaries that (as usual) attempted to identify exactly when this event happened in Narihira's life and who the woman was. It became the standard theory through the pre-modern period, though later it was connected more with the division of the poems into books.

			It was not until the modern period that commenters again began to admit the possibility that this is actually a love poem. Katagiri was particularly firm in his insistence -- the first poem uses words like ''ada'' (flighty) and ''na ni tatsu'' (get a reputation) that are extremely common in love poetry, and he thought it was silly to deny that this was a love exchange. He and Kagawa Kageki (''Seigi'') noted that there are other love poems in the seasonal volumes, and there are contemporary examples of seasonal screen paintings having love poems associated with them.

			Narihira's response (which was greatly praised in pre-modern commentary) is easiest to interpret as a love response. Often this kind of exchange involves an accusation of insincerity which is then countered with another similar accusation. Thus with the response, Narihira is saying "I had to come today, because if I came tomorrow who knows if you would still be interested in me?"

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Fujiwaranoteika at 18:28, 7 July 2026

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	== Analysis ==		== Analysis ==

			This is the first poem exchange in the KKS. Exchanges are comparatively rare in this collection, with only 18 in the entire compilation. This is possibly because the KKS was attempting to focus on "public" poetry for reasons of prestige. It is notable that 7 of the 18 exchanges involve Narihira, with 5 of those being in the love volumes.

	[[KKS 61\|Previous poem]] \| [[KKS 64\|Next poem]]		[[KKS 61\|Previous poem]] \| [[KKS 64\|Next poem]]

	[[Category:Spring]]		[[Category:Spring]]

Fujiwaranoteika at 18:05, 7 July 2026

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	* ''[[Kokin waka rokujō]]'' \| ''[[~~Wakan rōeishū~~]]''		* 61:
			** ''[[Teika hachidaishō]]''
			* 62:
			** ''[[Kokin waka rokujō]]''
			** ''[[Teika hachidaishō]]''

	== Analysis ==		== Analysis ==

Fujiwaranoteika at 18:04, 7 July 2026

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			== Text ==

			桜の花の盛りに、久しく訪はざりける人の来たりける時によみける

			Read when, amidst the full bloom of the cherry blossoms, someone who had not visited for a long time came

			よみ人しらず

			Poet unknown

			あだなりと名にこそたてれ桜花年にまれなる人も待ちけり

			{{PoemPair
			\|orig=
			<poem>
			ada nari to
			na ni koso tatere
			sakurabana
			toshi ni mare naru
			hito mo machi-keri
			</poem>

			\|trans=
			<poem>
			Inconstant and flighty
			Is their reputation, but
			The cherry blossoms
			They seem to have waited
			For one who rarely comes.
			</poem>
			}}

			返し

			Response

			業平朝臣

			Lord [[Ariwara no Narihira]]

			けふこずはあすは雪とぞ降なましきえずは有とも花とみましや

			{{PoemPair
			\|orig=
			<poem>
			kyō ko-zu wa
			asu ha yuki to zo
			furi-na-mashi
			kiezu wa ari tomo
			hana to mi-mashi ya
			</poem>

			\|trans=
			<poem>
			If I'd not come today
			Tomorrow they'd have fallen
			As if they were snow.
			Though they would not have melted,
			I wouldn't see them as flowers.
			</poem>
			}}

			== Notes ==


			Other sources:

			* ''[[Kokin waka rokujō]]'' \| ''[[Wakan rōeishū]]''

			== Analysis ==

			[[KKS 61\|Previous poem]] \| [[KKS 64\|Next poem]]

			[[Category:Spring]]

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