Hyakunin Isshu Oracle

No.79 左京大夫顕輔(藤原顕輔)「秋風に たなびく雲の 絶え間より もれ出づる月の 影のさやけさ」

秋風に たなびく雲の 絶え間より もれ出づる月の 影のさやけさ

左京大夫顕輔(藤原顕輔)

through one tear in the cloud the light is unbearably clear

through one tear in the cloud the light is unbearably clear

キーワードKeywords

Gap in CloudsLeaking LightClarityAutumn WindSingle Shaft
Nature/Seasons Autumn

左京大夫顕輔(藤原顕輔)Fujiwara no Akisuke — No. 79 公卿Court Noble

The noble who compiled the Shikashū, and left one crystalline poem of moonlight through a gap in cloud.

あきかぜに たなびくくもの たえまより もれいづるつきの かげのさやけさ

Akikaze ni Tanabiku kumo no Taema yori More-izuru tsuki no Kage no sayakesa

現代語訳Modern Japanese

コンセプトConcept

情景The Scene

High wind, thin cloud drawn out in streaks. For a few seconds a gap opens and moonlight comes through it — not diffuse but a clean edged shaft, colder and clearer than any full moon in open sky.

日本の美意識Japanese Aesthetic

Ma (The Meaningful Gap)

The gap is the instrument, not the moon. Full illumination flattens; a single aperture concentrates. Mute the arrangement and let one line through the hole.