Hyakunin Isshu Oracle

No.22 文屋康秀「吹くからに 秋の草木の しをるれば むべ山風を あらしといふらむ」

吹くからに 秋の草木の しをるれば むべ山風を あらしといふらむ

文屋康秀

mountain over wind — no wonder they call it storm

mountain over wind — no wonder they call it storm

キーワードKeywords

Mountain WindWitheringEtymologyStormWordplay
Nature/Seasons Autumn

文屋康秀Funya no Yasuhide — No. 22 官人Official

One of the six poetic geniuses; low in rank, but sharp in the wit of his wordplay.

ふくからに あきのくさきの しをるれば むべやまかぜを あらしといふらむ

Fuku kara ni Aki no kusaki no Shiorureba Mube yamakaze o Arashi to iuran

現代語訳Modern Japanese

コンセプトConcept

情景The Scene

Autumn wind comes off the mountain and everything green folds immediately. He notices that the character for storm is the character for mountain stacked on wind — and decides the language knew this before he did.

日本の美意識Japanese Aesthetic

Kotodama (The Word as Vessel)

The poem finds the phenomenon already encoded in writing. Treat your medium’s own materials — letters, file names, chord names — as evidence about the world, and description turns into discovery.