Hyakunin Isshu Oracle

No.80 待賢門院堀河「長からむ 心も知らず 黒髪の 乱れて今朝は 物をこそ思へ」

長からむ 心も知らず 黒髪の 乱れて今朝は 物をこそ思へ

待賢門院堀河

you said it would be long — my hair is what I can see

you said it would be long — my hair is what I can see

キーワードKeywords

Tangled HairMorning AfterDoubtLong PromiseDisorder
Love

待賢門院堀河Horikawa of Taikenmon-in — No. 80 女房・姫Court Lady

A lady-in-waiting to Taikenmon-in, who put a morning’s uncertainty into the image of tangled hair.

ながからむ こころもしらず くろかみの みだれてけさは ものをこそおもへ

Nagakaran Kokoro mo shirazu Kurokami no Midarete kesa wa Mono o koso omoe

現代語訳Modern Japanese

コンセプトConcept

情景The Scene

Morning. He has said his feeling will be a long one; she has no way to verify that. What she can see is her own long hair, tangled from the night, spread across the bedding in no order at all.

日本の美意識Japanese Aesthetic

Mitate (Body as Evidence)

An unverifiable promise is answered with a visible physical state. When you cannot show the abstraction, show the disorder it left in the room.