Hyakunin Isshu Oracle

No.30 壬生忠岑「有明の つれなく見えし 別れより 暁ばかり 憂きものはなし」

有明の つれなく見えし 別れより 暁ばかり 憂きものはなし

壬生忠岑

since that cold dawn moon no hour hurts like this one

since that cold dawn moon no hour hurts like this one

キーワードKeywords

Dawn MoonCold FarewellIndifferenceDaybreakRuined Hour
Love

壬生忠岑Mibu no Tadamine — No. 30 官人Official

One of the compilers of the Kokinshū, whose thinking on poetic dignity shaped later criticism.

ありあけの つれなくみえし わかれより あかつきばかり うきものはなし

Ariake no Tsurenaku mieshi Wakare yori Akatsuki bakari Uki mono wa nashi

現代語訳Modern Japanese

コンセプトConcept

情景The Scene

The moon still up at dawn, entirely unbothered, on the morning she left without warmth. Since then daybreak itself has been the enemy — not the memory, the hour. It comes back every day.

日本の美意識Japanese Aesthetic

Nagori (Traces That Linger)

A single event contaminates a recurring time of day, so the grief has a schedule. Attach a feeling to something that returns — an hour, a key, a room tone — and it will keep arriving without you.