唐衣我はかたなのふれなくにまづたつ物はなき名なりけり
| karakoromo ware Fa katana no Furenaku ni madu tatu mono Fa nakina narikeri | Upon a Cathay robe Splitting sword I Have not laid my hand, yet First to arise are Baseless rumours. |
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SIS XII: 703
SKKS XVII: 1683
To say that from now on they should rest and relax in the pines’ shade, when he visited someone’s house.
かげにとて立ちかくるれば唐衣ぬれぬ雨ふるまつの声かな
| kage ni tote tachikakurureba karakoromo nurenu ame furu matsu no koe kana | In the shade, I say, To stand and hide myself away, for Upon my Cathay robe Will fall soughing rain— The sound of pines! |
Tsurayuki
Kinkai wakashū 612
In reply to a message sent from the residence of someone who had gone to a distant province, saying ‘I would show you my sleeves…’
我ゆゑにぬるるにはあらじから衣やまぢのこけの露にぞ有りける
| ware yue ni nururu ni wa araji karakoromo yamaji no koke no tsuyu ni zo arikeru | For my sake Soaked is not, I think, Your Cathay robe, for Mossy mountain paths Are thick with dew! |
612
Kinkai wakashū 544
Kinkai wakashū 527
Kinkai wakashū 475
Kinkai wakashū 300
MYS XIV: 3482
可良許呂毛 須蘇乃宇知可倍 安波祢杼毛 家思吉己許呂乎 安我毛波奈久尓
からころも すそのうちかへ あはねども けしきこころを あがもはなくに
| karakoromo suso no utikape apanedomo kesiki kokoro o a ga mopanaku ni | A Cathay robe’s Seamed hems cross, but Do not meet together, yet To have a faithless heart I’ll not think, at all…[1] |
Anonymous
In a certain book, this poem is:
可良己呂母 須素能宇知可比 阿波奈敝婆 祢奈敝乃可良尓 許等多可利都母
からころも すそのうちかひ あはなへば ねなへのからに ことたかりつも
| karakoromo suso no utikapi apanapeba nenape no kara ni kototakaritu mo | A Cathay robe’s Seamed hems crossing, but Not meeting— We sleep not together, yet How painful the rumours are… |
[1] This poem relies for its impact on a knowledge of continental clothing designs. Unlike in contemporaneous Japanese garments which were all the same length, continental ones (karakoromo 唐衣 – note that this has been translated as ‘Cathay robe’ for consistency, but the kara element is probably more likely to refer to Kudara 百済, the Korean kingdom of Baekje, in this context) featured multiple robes of differing lengths and thus the hems of these would not align. The use of au 合ふ (‘meet/come together [of objects]’) simultaneously evokes the homophonous au 逢ふ (‘meet [romantically’] and awaseme 合目 (‘seam’).
