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Kinkai wakashū

Kinkai wakashū 700

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On seeing the salt fires of fisherfolk, when I had gone out to the beach.

いつもかくさびしきものかあしのやに焼きすさびたるあまのもしほ火

itsumo kaku
sabishiki mono ka
ashi no ya ni
keburi susabitaru
ama no moshiobi		Are they always such
Lonely things?
Above the roofs of reeds
Thin trails of smoke
From fishers’ seaweed salt fires…[i]

700

[i] See: いつもかくさびしきものかつの国のあし屋の里の秋の夕暮 itsumo kaku / sabishiki mono ka / tsu no kuni no / ashiya no sato no / aki no yūgure ‘Are they always such / Lonely things? / In the land of Tsu, / Reed-roofed villages / On an autumn evening…’ Ietaka (Rōnyaku gojusshu uta’awase 497)

Goshūishū

GSIS IX: 503

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On seeing fisherfolk burning salt when he was on the road to Kumano, and felt particularly unwell.

旅の空夜半のけぶりとのぼりなばあまのもしほ火たくかとやみん

tabi no sora
yowa no keburi to
noborinaba
ama no mosiobi
taku ka to ya min		Should into my travel’s skies
One night as smoke
I rise,
The fisherfolk seaweed salt fires
Kindling—would it appear so, I wonder?

Former Emperor Kazan

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.
Shinchokusenshū

SCSS XII: 761

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Love and Smoke, for a Fifty Poem Sequence at the residence of the Lay Priest Prince of the Second Order.

うらみじな難波のみつにたつけぶり心からたくあまのもしほ火

uramiji na
naniwa no mitsu ni
tatsu keburi
kokoro kara taku
ama no moshiobi		I cannot hate her, can I?
From Naniwa harbour
The smoke arising is
Kindled in my heart as
Fisherfolk’s seaweed-salt fires…[i]

Consultant Masatsune

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

[i] An allusive variation on KKS XVII: 894.