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[[ | Priest [[Sosei]] | ||
花散らす風の宿りは誰かしる我に教へよ行きて恨みん | |||
{{PoemPair | {{PoemPair | ||
|orig= | |orig= | ||
<poem> | <poem> | ||
hana chirasu | |||
kaze no yadori wa | |||
tare ka shiru | |||
ware ni oshieyo | |||
yuki-te urami-n | |||
</poem> | </poem> | ||
|trans= | |trans= | ||
<poem> | <poem> | ||
The lodging of | |||
The wind that scatters the blossoms | |||
Who knows it? | |||
Tell me where it is! | |||
I will go and complain. | |||
</poem> | </poem> | ||
}} | }} | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
Other sources: | Other sources: | ||
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== Analysis == | == Analysis == | ||
The previous poem was calm and postured, comparing the blossoms to snow. Here, Sosei vents anger with a conversational style poem that contains two questioning sentences that break up the poem. The 13th century priest-poet Jakue noted that usually poets will subsume their identities into the poem, but the explicit use of ''ware'' (me) here highlights Sosei's anger. | |||
Older commentaries commonly described the tone here as "childish" or "slight", referring to the idea that the wind might actually have a "lodging" that one can visit. More recent commentaries do not agree with this, seeing the personification of the wind as elegant and poetic. Rather than the "home" of the wind, the ''yadori'' is better seen as a temporary lodging where the wind, which blows here and there, stays. Sosei wants to find out where the wind is staying tonight. | |||
In another difference of opinion on the tone, some commenters (such as Kaneko 1927) describe the feeling as crazed anger, especially as shown through the direct questions. Takeoka sees it rather as conversational and not particularly crazed. | |||
McCullough praised the "wry humor" and the "originality of Sosei's conception," contrasting it to the poems that surround it. She used this as an example of this kind of arrangement in the KKS, also using Tsurayuki's [[KKS 2|poem 2]] as an example. However, there are some doubts as to what the original arrangement of the poems was here, since different manuscripts place 76-78 in different orders. | |||
Finally, Katagiri notes that this is the first poem of several which show anger at the wind for scattering the flowers. | |||
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Latest revision as of 14:16, 7 September 2026
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桜の花の散り侍りけるをみてよみける
Read on seeing the fallen cherry blossoms
素性法師
Priest Sosei
花散らす風の宿りは誰かしる我に教へよ行きて恨みん
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hana chirasu |
The lodging of |
Notes
Other sources:
Analysis
The previous poem was calm and postured, comparing the blossoms to snow. Here, Sosei vents anger with a conversational style poem that contains two questioning sentences that break up the poem. The 13th century priest-poet Jakue noted that usually poets will subsume their identities into the poem, but the explicit use of ware (me) here highlights Sosei's anger.
Older commentaries commonly described the tone here as "childish" or "slight", referring to the idea that the wind might actually have a "lodging" that one can visit. More recent commentaries do not agree with this, seeing the personification of the wind as elegant and poetic. Rather than the "home" of the wind, the yadori is better seen as a temporary lodging where the wind, which blows here and there, stays. Sosei wants to find out where the wind is staying tonight.
In another difference of opinion on the tone, some commenters (such as Kaneko 1927) describe the feeling as crazed anger, especially as shown through the direct questions. Takeoka sees it rather as conversational and not particularly crazed.
McCullough praised the "wry humor" and the "originality of Sosei's conception," contrasting it to the poems that surround it. She used this as an example of this kind of arrangement in the KKS, also using Tsurayuki's poem 2 as an example. However, there are some doubts as to what the original arrangement of the poems was here, since different manuscripts place 76-78 in different orders.
Finally, Katagiri notes that this is the first poem of several which show anger at the wind for scattering the flowers.
