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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

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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.

かすがの: In the Tales of Ise version of this poem, this reads 武蔵野. 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.

わか草のつま: 若草 is acting as a pillow word here, but it has obvious connections to the scene where the poem takes place.; The Ise version of this poem is written by a woman, so commentators are at pains to prove that つま can be used of a man with cites from the MYS and others. In the KKS context this may be written by a man instead.; On the other hand, the pillow word 若草 would seem to fit better with a woman than a man.

As mentioned in the Notes, this poem appears in the Tales of Ise, part 12.