Hyakunin Isshu Oracle

No.93 鎌倉右大臣(源実朝)「世の中は 常にもがもな 渚漕ぐ 海人の小舟の 綱手かなしも」

世の中は 常にもがもな 渚漕ぐ 海人の小舟の 綱手かなしも

鎌倉右大臣(源実朝)

let it all stay like this — a man pulling his boat home

let it all stay like this — a man pulling his boat home

キーワードKeywords

Let It StayTowropeSmall BoatShorelineWish Against Change
★★ Miscellaneous

鎌倉右大臣(源実朝)Minamoto no Sanetomo — No. 93 公卿Court Noble

The third shogun of Kamakura, who longed for the poetry of the capital and left the Kinkai Wakashū before being assassinated at twenty-eight.

よのなかは つねにもがもな なぎさこぐ あまのをぶねの つなでかなしも

Yo no naka wa Tsune ni mo gamo na Nagisa kogu Ama no obune no Tsunade kanashi mo

現代語訳Modern Japanese

コンセプトConcept

情景The Scene

Late light on a shallow shore. A fisherman hauls his small boat along by a rope, wading, unhurried — a gesture repeated every evening for centuries. The young lord watching says only: let the world stay exactly like this. It will not.

日本の美意識Japanese Aesthetic

Mono no Aware (Tenderness Toward the Ordinary)

Enormous longing is grounded in one small repeated motion. When you want a piece to carry the weight of impermanence, do not photograph the monument — photograph the daily gesture and let the listener understand it will end.