Hyakunin Isshu Oracle

No.7 阿倍仲麿「天の原 ふりさけ見れば 春日なる 三笠の山に 出でし月かも」

天の原 ふりさけ見れば 春日なる 三笠の山に 出でし月かも

阿倍仲麿

a foreign sky, and yet — the moon from my old hill

a foreign sky, and yet — the moon from my old hill

キーワードKeywords

ExileSame MoonHomesicknessForeign ShoreDiaspora
★★★ Journey

阿倍仲麿Abe no Nakamaro — No. 7 官人Official

Sent to Tang China as a student, he rose to high office under Emperor Xuanzong and died there, never having made it home.

あまのはら ふりさけみれば かすがなる みかさのやまに いでしつきかも

Ama no hara Furisake mireba Kasuga naru Mikasa no yama ni Ideshi tsuki kamo

現代語訳Modern Japanese

コンセプトConcept

情景The Scene

A harbor in a foreign country, the language around you not yours. You tilt your head all the way back. The moon is up — and it is, impossibly, the exact same moon that used to rise over the hill behind your childhood home. Nothing else here is yours. That is.

日本の美意識Japanese Aesthetic

Nagori (Traces That Linger)

Homesickness is not a memory of a place but a signal still arriving from it. One shared element — a moon, a scale, a field of static — can carry a whole vanished world. When you sample your own past, take one object, not the whole room.