Hyakunin Isshu Oracle

No.9 小野小町「花の色は 移りにけりな いたづらに わが身世にふる ながめせしまに」

花の色は 移りにけりな いたづらに わが身世にふる ながめせしまに

小野小町

the long rain, the long look — both of us lost our color

the long rain, the long look — both of us lost our color

キーワードKeywords

Fading ColorLong RainVanityDouble MeaningTime Passing
Nature/Seasons Spring

小野小町Ono no Komachi — No. 9 女房・姫Court Lady

The only woman among the six poetic geniuses, a master of love poems whose legendary beauty generated centuries of stories.

はなのいろは うつりにけりな いたづらに わがみよにふる ながめせしまに

Hana no iro wa Utsuri ni keri na Itazura ni Waga mi yo ni furu Nagame seshi ma ni

現代語訳Modern Japanese

コンセプトConcept

情景The Scene

Interior, day, but no sun for a week. Rain at the edge of the veranda. The blossoms outside have gone from pink to a used, papery beige while she was doing nothing but looking at the rain — and in that same stretch of nothing, her own face changed too.

日本の美意識Japanese Aesthetic

Kakekotoba (Layered Word / Double Exposure)

One word carries two meanings at once, so two timelines occupy a single line. This is the poetic form of a double exposure, or of a lyric that describes weather and a body in the same phrase. Ambiguity here is not vagueness — it is density.