Hyakunin Isshu Oracle

No.46 曽禰好忠「由良の門を 渡る舟人 かぢを絶え 行方も知らぬ 恋の道かな」

由良の門を 渡る舟人 かぢを絶え 行方も知らぬ 恋の道かな

曽禰好忠

the rudder is gone — the current still has plans

the rudder is gone — the current still has plans

キーワードKeywords

Lost RudderStraitDriftingNo DestinationHelpless Course
Love

曽禰好忠Sone no Yoshitada — No. 46 官人Official

A minor official in Tango whose blunt style went against the taste of his era and was reappraised centuries later.

ゆらのとを わたるふなびと かぢをたえ ゆくへもしらぬ こひのみちかな

Yura no to o Wataru funabito Kaji o tae Yukue mo shiranu Koi no michi kana

現代語訳Modern Japanese

コンセプトConcept

情景The Scene

A boat in the middle of a strait, the rudder gone. The current still moves it, quickly, somewhere. That is the report: not despair, just loss of steering.

日本の美意識Japanese Aesthetic

Mujō (Impermanence in Motion)

The poem describes a loss of control rather than an emotion, which paradoxically transmits the emotion better. Show the mechanism failing and the audience feels the fall.