No.2 持統天皇「春過ぎて 夏来にけらし 白妙の 衣ほすてふ 天の香具山」
春過ぎて 夏来にけらし 白妙の 衣ほすてふ 天の香具山
持統天皇
white on the holy hill — summer has hung out its laundry
white on the holy hill — summer has hung out its laundry
キーワードKeywords
持統天皇Empress Jitō — No. 2 帝・皇族Sovereign
天智天皇の娘で天武天皇の后。夫の没後に即位し、藤原京を営んだ女帝。
Daughter of Emperor Tenji and consort of Emperor Tenmu; she took the throne after his death and built the Fujiwara capital.
はるすぎて なつきにけらし しろたへの ころもほすてふ あまのかぐやま
Haru sugite Natsu ki ni kerashi Shirotae no Koromo hosu chō Ama no Kaguyama
現代語訳Modern Japanese
春が過ぎて、もう夏が来たらしい。白い衣を干すという天の香具山に、まぶしい白が広がっている。
コンセプトConcept
季節の交代を、暦ではなく「白の量」で知る歌。神の山にかかる白を、干された衣に見立てた瞬間、聖と日常が同じ画面に収まる。
情景The Scene
Wide shot, high noon, no wind. The sacred mountain has changed color overnight — not green, not haze, but a blank dazzling white, as if a household of gods had hung out their summer linen to dry across the whole ridge. Spring ended while no one was watching.
日本の美意識Japanese Aesthetic
見立て (みたて)
あるものを、別のものとして意図的に見る技法。山を干した衣に、紅葉を絞り染めに読み替える。巨大なものを身体の尺度に引き寄せ、抽象を触れるものに変える。
Mitate (Creative Misreading)
Mitate is deliberately seeing one thing as another: a mountain as drying laundry, a synth pad as sea fog. The technique is not decoration — it is how a divine scale becomes something a body can feel. Find the domestic image hiding inside the enormous one.