Hyakunin Isshu Oracle

No.97 権中納言定家(藤原定家)「来ぬ人を まつほの浦の 夕なぎに 焼くや藻塩の 身もこがれつつ」

来ぬ人を まつほの浦の 夕なぎに 焼くや藻塩の 身もこがれつつ

権中納言定家(藤原定家)

they are burning salt at dusk — I am the thing being burned

they are burning salt at dusk — I am the thing being burned

キーワードKeywords

Salt BurningEvening CalmWaitingScorchedMatsuho Shore
Love

権中納言定家(藤原定家)Fujiwara no Teika — No. 97 公卿Court Noble

Compiler of the Shin Kokinshū and Shin Chokusenshū, the summit of both theory and practice — and the presumed selector of these hundred poems.

こぬひとを まつほのうらの ゆふなぎに やくやもしほの みもこがれつつ

Konu hito o Matsuho no ura no Yūnagi ni Yaku ya moshio no Mi mo kogare tsutsu

現代語訳Modern Japanese

コンセプトConcept

情景The Scene

Windless evening on the shore at Matsuho, seaweed burning slowly in the salt kilns, smoke going straight up. He is waiting for someone who is not coming, and the process on the beach describes what is happening to him.

日本の美意識Japanese Aesthetic

Honkadori (Building on an Origin Song)

Teika layers older poems, a place name, a craft process and a pun into one image. Depth in a short form comes from stacking references that all point the same direction.