KKS 17
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Text
かすがのは けふなやきそ わか草の つまもこもれり 我もこもれり
Translation
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The fields of Kasuga / do not burn them today! / Like the young shoots / my wife is hidden / I am hidden too.
Notes
- The fields of Kasuga
- In the Tales of Ise version of this poem, this reads "The fields of Musashi." This was a problem for pre-Edo commentators, because the Ise was considered to be an accurate record of the poetry of Narihira, and the KKS also held the authority of Imperial commission.
- Fujiwara no Norikane, in the Template:Oldest, suggested that since there is a Kasuga village in Musashi province, the two names are actually the same. Template:Oldest was willing to allow that the Ise version was fictional and had the name changed, but Tsurayuki went with the original version when compiling the KKS. Template:Teika himself seems not to have cared that much about the difference, but commentaries in his scholarly line developed secret teachings about a Musashi burial mound in Kasuga field (as revealed in the Chronicles of Japan). Tsurayuki, being learned enough to know about this, knew that the Ise story actually took place in Kasuga and corrected the record for the KKS.
- Of course, since the Edo period everyone accepts that we simply have two versions of the same poem.
