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= Gosen wakashu Volume 5: Autumn 1 後撰和歌集巻第五 秋上 = | = Gosen wakashu Volume 5: Autumn 1 後撰和歌集巻第五 秋上 = | ||
The importance of autumn to the ''waka'' poets of the Heian period cannot be overstated. The 227 poems in the three autumn volumes comprise nearly half of the seasonal poems, a similar ratio to the KKS. The GSS uses not only the autumn imagery from the KKS, but liberally includes love poems. Many of them rely on a pun with the word ''aki'', which can mean the season of autumn, or a lack of fulfillment. In love poetry, the latter typically refers to the feeling one party has when the love affair is not going well, or the idea that one of the members has become tired of the other. | The importance of autumn to the ''waka'' poets of the Heian period cannot be overstated. The 227 poems in the three autumn volumes comprise nearly half of the seasonal poems, a similar ratio to the KKS. The GSS uses not only the autumn imagery from the KKS, but liberally includes love poems. Many of them rely on a pun with the word ''aki'', which can mean the season of autumn, or a lack of fulfillment. In love poetry, the latter typically refers to the feeling one party has when the love affair is not going well, or the idea that one of the members has become tired of the other. This pun is so common that I will not mention it every time it occurs; it should perhaps be considered as underlying the entire volume. | ||
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::The wind off the river is cold! Perhaps autumn has come along with the approaching waves. | ::The wind off the river is cold! Perhaps autumn has come along with the approaching waves. | ||
Public poems like this are relatively uncommon in the GSS, but as with the spring volume, the compilers begin by introducing seasonal themes through this public, artificial poetry, which will then be followed by examples of its use in occasional or private poetry. | Public poems like this are relatively uncommon in the GSS, but as with the spring volume, the compilers begin by introducing seasonal themes through this public, artificial poetry, which will then be followed by examples of its use in occasional or private poetry. | ||
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題知らず | |||
Circumstance unknown | |||
[Poet unknown] | |||
うちつけに物ぞ悲しきこのはちる秋の始めをけふぞとおもへば | |||
utituke ni All of a sudden | |||
mono zo kanasiki I feel sad for no reason. | |||
ko no ha tiru Because I think that | |||
aki no hazime wo The beginning of autumn, | |||
kehu zo to omohe-ba When leaves scatter, is today. | |||
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The poetry contest poem is followed by an anonymous poem that could be seen as having a love connotation, but is basically just a seasonal autumn poem. Here, the falling leaves, which is the major theme of autumn, is connected to a general sadness. The use of the ''tochiho'' (inverted syntax) fronts the sudden feeling of sadness that results. | |||
This poem appears in the ''Wakan roeishu'' paired with KKS 169 (see above). | |||
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Gosen wakashu Volume 5: Autumn 1 後撰和歌集巻第五 秋上
The importance of autumn to the waka poets of the Heian period cannot be overstated. The 227 poems in the three autumn volumes comprise nearly half of the seasonal poems, a similar ratio to the KKS. The GSS uses not only the autumn imagery from the KKS, but liberally includes love poems. Many of them rely on a pun with the word aki, which can mean the season of autumn, or a lack of fulfillment. In love poetry, the latter typically refers to the feeling one party has when the love affair is not going well, or the idea that one of the members has become tired of the other. This pun is so common that I will not mention it every time it occurs; it should perhaps be considered as underlying the entire volume.
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是貞親王の家の歌合に
At Prince Koresada's poetry competition
よみ人しらず
Poet unknown
にはかにも風のすずしくなりぬるか秋立つ日とはむべもいひけり
nihaka ni mo Oh how suddenly kaze no suzusiku The wind has changed and become nari-nuru ka Cooler on this day! aki tatu hi to ha No wonder they are saying mube mo ihi-keri That autumn has now started.
- Prince Koresada's poetry competition
- A competition held probably in 892. It seems to have centered on autumn poems, and was a major source of autumn poetry for the KKS. The GSS takes three autumn poems from it.
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As might be expected from a poetry competition poem, this is a witty poem on the relation of the naming of seasons to the feel of the air. It is reminiscent of SIS 1, where just hearing that it's spring makes you see mist on the mountain. The beginning of the KKS autumn volume also uses the autumn wind:
- 秋きぬと目にはさやかに見えねども風の音にぞおどろかれぬる
- It is not clear to the eye that autumn has come, but I get surprised by the sound of the wind.
KKS 170, by Tsurayuki, is also similar:
- 川風の涼しくもあるかうち寄する波とともにや秋はたつらむ
- The wind off the river is cold! Perhaps autumn has come along with the approaching waves.
Public poems like this are relatively uncommon in the GSS, but as with the spring volume, the compilers begin by introducing seasonal themes through this public, artificial poetry, which will then be followed by examples of its use in occasional or private poetry.
218
題知らず
Circumstance unknown
[Poet unknown]
うちつけに物ぞ悲しきこのはちる秋の始めをけふぞとおもへば
utituke ni All of a sudden mono zo kanasiki I feel sad for no reason. ko no ha tiru Because I think that aki no hazime wo The beginning of autumn, kehu zo to omohe-ba When leaves scatter, is today.
--
The poetry contest poem is followed by an anonymous poem that could be seen as having a love connotation, but is basically just a seasonal autumn poem. Here, the falling leaves, which is the major theme of autumn, is connected to a general sadness. The use of the tochiho (inverted syntax) fronts the sudden feeling of sadness that results.
This poem appears in the Wakan roeishu paired with KKS 169 (see above).
