Hyakunin Isshu Oracle

No.4 山部赤人「田子の浦に うち出でて見れば 白妙の 富士の高嶺に 雪は降りつつ」

田子の浦に うち出でて見れば 白妙の 富士の高嶺に 雪は降りつつ

山部赤人

far above the cold sea it is still snowing — still

far above the cold sea it is still snowing — still

キーワードKeywords

SilencePure WhiteMt. FujiWinter OceanScale
Nature/Seasons Winter

山部赤人Yamabe no Akahito — No. 4 官人Official

A Man’yō master of landscape, named alongside Hitomaro, who could present a scene as a single composed image.

たごのうらに うちいでてみれば しろたへの ふじのたかねに ゆきはふりつつ

Tago no ura ni Uchi-idete mireba Shirotae no Fuji no takane ni Yuki wa furitsutsu

現代語訳Modern Japanese

コンセプトConcept

情景The Scene

You come out from between the pines onto an open shore. The sea is flat pewter. Above the horizon, absurdly high, the white cone — and up there, still, snow is falling; falling now, falling while you look, falling after you leave. The scale of it makes your own breath audible.

日本の美意識Japanese Aesthetic

Ma (Negative Space)

Almost nothing happens here: a walk, a look, weather. The power comes from the enormous emptiness between the viewer and the peak. In a mix, this is the reverb tail you refuse to fill. Distance is an instrument. Do not crowd it.