Old Folk 老人
おきなさび立ゐもやすくをられねばつら杖つきてけふもくらしつ
| okina sabi tachi’i mo yasuku orareneba tsurazue tsukite kyō mo kurashitsu | As an old gent should, Standing at ease is Impossible for me, so With my hand on my chin Have I spent this day, too. |
Kanemasa
Tag Archives: okina
Love V: 6
Left (Win).
あか月にあらぬ別も今はとて我が世ふくれば添ふ思ひかな
| akatsuki ni aranu wakare mo ima wa tote wa ga yo fukureba sou omoi kana |
At dawn This parting is not; Now it is When my life reaches twilight – I think… |
Lord Sada’ie.
851
Right.
翁さび身は惜しからぬ戀衣今はと濡れん人なとがめそ
| okina sabi mi wa oshikaranu koigoromo ima wa to nuren hito na togame so |
Feeling like an ancient, But I regret it not! My loving clothes: Now’s the time to dampen them But blame me not! |
Jakuren.
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The Right state: the Left’s poem has no faults to mention. The Left state: we wonder about the appropriateness of ‘now’s the time to dampen them’ (ima wa to nuren).
In judgement: ‘Feeling like an ancient’ (okina sabi) ‘now’s the time to dampen them’ (ima wa to nuren) does not sound like it fits formally with ‘but I regret it not!’ (mi wa oshikaranu). The Left, in addition to sounding like it has no faults, has ‘this parting is not; now it is’ (aranu wakare mo ima wa tote), which certainly sounds right. It is superior.
MYS XVI: 3794
Nine poems in reply by the maidens.
はしきやし翁の歌におほほしき九の子らや感けて居らむ
| pasikiyasi okina no uta ni opoposiki kokono no kora ya kamakete woramu |
Well, By the old man’s poem While taking our ease Are we nine maids Entranced? |