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Spring 2023
Monday Motivation
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Hello Spring!
老人のウンベララ
walking with the nature!
A very gripping connecting story which showcases the life of Mohamed Choukri. I can literally visualize the various contrasting in his…
Reading a book
Mind waves are gushing out from the brain. The lust green memories are gazing on the pasture body. Scratches, murmurs, and voice over are…
Group of stars shines at me and though the sprinkles of farthest galaxies. The vacuums of cosmic dust blow the sparkling colors into my…
Dream is the royal road to the unconscious.
~Sigman Freud~
In a pleasant autumn evening as I walk across the lanes of a lush green park, dry leaves fall over me making me wonder. God’s own creation…
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Japanese Poetry
Poetry has been a major Japanese influence on the literature of many countries. In the early waka and later haiku forms, poets strove for the utmost conciseness and vividness; always linking emotions or ideas to natural objects. The gem-like brilliance of these extremely restricted forms has attracted many modern Western poets. The following poems are from two classic collections of Japanese verse, theManyoshu and the Kokinoshu.
Anonymous: In the autumn fields From the early section of the love poems of the Kokinoshu. In the autumn fields mingled with the pampas grass flowers are blooming should my love too, spring forth or shall we never meet?
Mibu no Tadamine: On Kasuga plain Having seen a young lady at the Kasuga festival, Tadamine asked where she lived and sent this poem. On Kasuga plain between those patches of snow just beginning to sprout, glimpsed, the blades of grass, like those glimpses of you.
Ono no Komachi: The hue of the cherry (9th C. CE)
Ono no Komachi was a fine poet, but she was also a great court beauty whose love affairs became the plots of more than one Noh drama. Many of her poems used multiple puns (called “pivot words”) to create complex layers of meaning.
In what way does the poet compare herself to the cherry blossoms in the spring rain?
The hue of the cherry fades too quickly from sight all for nothing this body of mine grows old — spring rain ceaselessly falling.
Sugawara Michizane (845-903): The autumn breeze rises
Japanese poets often delight in exploring ambiguities. One of their favorite themes is the difficulty of discerning one white object from another: a white spider on a white flower, or here, white flowers and the foam of waves beating against the shore. Nature in the Heian period (794-1186) was never an untamed wilderness but most typically represented by the carefully tended garden or a painting on a folding screen. This poem was attached to a chrysanthemum during a courtly competition where the flower was placed in a miniature representation of the beach at Fukiage done in a tray. The author is best known as a scholar and poet of Chinese verse. The autumn breeze rises on the shore at Fukiage– and those white chrysanthemums are they flowers? or not? or only breakers on the beach?
Ki no Tsurayuki (c. 872-945): The night approaches
Ki no Tsurayuki was the foremost poet of his age. He was one of the editors of the Kokinshu and wrote one of the prefaces to the anthology. He was also the author of a travel diary, the Tosa diary.
In what way is the approach of night like autumn? The night approaches, darkness on Mt. Ogura where the deer cry out and in their voices calling is it autumn on the wane?
Prince Otsu (663-86): Poem sent by Prince Otsu to Lady Ishikawa
In the classical age much of the verse was occasional poetry, and poetic exchanges were a necessary part of courtship. In this exchange the Lady Ishikawa has taken Prince Otsu’s poem and cleverly rearranged it. She repeats in the forth line what Prince Otsu has repeated in lines two and five of his poem.
How does Lady Ishakawa turn Prince Otsu’s complaint at having been stood up into a compliment which reassures him of her continuing love?
Gentle foothills, and in the dew drops of the mountains, soaked, I waited for you– grew wet from standing there in the dew drops of the mountains.
Lady Ishikawa (7th C. CE): Poem by Lady Ishikawa in response
Waiting for me, you grew wet there in gentle foothills, in the dew drops of the mountains– I wish I’d been such drops of dew.
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