#manyoshu

[eirikrjs]

Been meaning to post this for years now, but being so slow means @kidcapes beat me to it:

[gleaningsinbuddhafields]

Love Triange, Part Two: Manyoshu Book One, Poem 21

A while back I wrote about a famous poem in the Manyoshu anthology by Princess Nukata addressed to her ex-husband Prince Oama (later Emperor Tenmu). It seems that the story of this forbidden encounter in a field of grass did not end there, because Prince Oama replied back… ManyoganaJapaneseRomanizationRough Translation1紫草能 紫草のMurasaki noHow could I possibly尓保敝類妹乎にほへる妹をNioeru imo obe bitter to…

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

[autumntundra]

Empress Jitō and Old Lady Shihi, Manyoshu

[liberanosacaritas]

[aether-xx]

A faint clap of thunder

Clouded skies

Perhaps rain comes

If so, will you stay here with me?

[godzilla-reads]

—Segment from the Manyōshū, translated by Meredith McKinney

[syringavulgaris]

Lady Kasa, as collected in the Man'yōshū