Hyakunin Isshu Oracle

No.64 権中納言定頼(藤原定頼)「朝ぼらけ 宇治の川霧 絶え絶えに あらはれ渡る 瀬々の網代木」

朝ぼらけ 宇治の川霧 絶え絶えに あらはれ渡る 瀬々の網代木

権中納言定頼(藤原定頼)

fog opens in strips — the weir stakes appear, one by one

fog opens in strips — the weir stakes appear, one by one

キーワードKeywords

River FogFish Weir StakesGradual RevealUjiWinter Dawn
Nature/Seasons Winter

権中納言定頼(藤原定頼)Fujiwara no Sadayori — No. 64 公卿Court Noble

Son of Kintō, accomplished across the arts like his father, and author of the river-fog poem at Uji.

あさぼらけ うぢのかはぎり たえだえに あらはれわたる せぜのあじろぎ

Asaborake Uji no kawagiri Taedae ni Araware wataru Zeze no ajirogi

現代語訳Modern Japanese

コンセプトConcept

情景The Scene

Winter dawn on the river. Fog tears into strips and, one after another, the fish-weir stakes appear across the shallows — a man-made line emerging from weather, section by section.

日本の美意識Japanese Aesthetic

Ma (Reveal Through Absence)

The subject is the process of becoming visible, not the object itself. Fades, gates and slow filter sweeps do this in sound: what emerges matters less than the rate at which it does.