Asia 454

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Who wrote about the lovely basket?

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Emperor Yuryaku

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Emperor Yuryaku
What age?
Year?

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Ancient

5th C

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Who:
Many are the hills
the mountains of Yamato,
yet when I ascend
heavenly Kaguyama...
when I look down on the land

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Emperor Jomei

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Emperor Jomei
Years

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593-641

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who:
Waiting for you,
I languish, full of longing
and then the blinds
of my house flutter slightly
blown by the autumn wind

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Princess Nukada

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Princess Nukada:
how does she feel about spring?

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It's too lush, not as good as autumn

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7
Princess Nukada
year:

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7th C

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One thing that was common during Hitomaro's time

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orality

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Hitomaro
lamented what?

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death of a princess

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Hitomaro
celebrated what?

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a new palace in Yoshino

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Hitomaro
years

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680-700

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Hitomaro
age

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ancient

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for a millenia, people would see Hitomaro as

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a mentor

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x
Ever since the day
of the august Emperor...
at Otsu Palace,
the place of rippling wavelets
in Omi...

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Hitomaro

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14
Hitomaro included a lot of

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envoys

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x
said a lot about Yoshino

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Hitomaro

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x
we parted like creeping vines
pain ravaged the heart

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Hitomaro

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x
Why, then should it be
that you, O great Princess,
Have quite forgotten
the palace of the morning

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Hitomaro

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x
On seeing a dead man among the rocks at Samine Island in Sanuki

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Hitomaro

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15
On seeing the dead man, Hitomaro thinks

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of his wife

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x
You wave-plovers
of dusk on the Omi Sea--
each time you cry out
my heart withhers within me,
set on things of long ago

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Hitomaro

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Hitomaro's full name

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Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

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Akahito
full name

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Yamabe no Akahito

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Akahito
age?
year?

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Ancient

8th C

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Akahito
declined?
rose?

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choka

tanka

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Akahito mostly did work to

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memorialize official journeys and occasions.

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Akahito
strength?
weakness?

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vivid description

too aloof

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x
...and how always on its peak
snow is falling, ever falling.
We praise it now, and ever more
the lofty peak of Fuji!

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Akahito

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x
envoy:
...the novle huntsmen
hold arrows at the ready--
ah, what a clamorous sight!

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Akahito

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x
The emperor's men
embark on a noble hunt
ladies of the court
trail their red skirts as they go--
walking down a clean ocean strand.

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Akahito

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x
Into the spring fields
I came, intending only
to pick violets
But so appealing were the fields
that I stayed to spend the night

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Akahito

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Tabito's full name

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Otomo no Tabito

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Tabito's son did what?

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compiled the Man'yoshu

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Tabito
Also wrote

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in Chinese

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Tabito
year?
Age?

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late 600s

Ancient

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Tabito
Main 2 topics?

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drinking

plum blossoms

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x
The full bloom of youth--
might it still come back to me?
Or must I suppose
that I will never again see
the capital at Nara?

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Tabito

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x
instead of fretting
over things that can't be changed,
how much better
to swalllow down a full cup
of cloudy sake!

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Tabito

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x
what an ugly bunch--
those who in pretended wisdom will not drink sake
thecloser you look at them
the more they look like monkeys!

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Tabito

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x
That juniper tree
my woman saw long ago
at Tomo Bay
stands here still, ever green--
though the one who saw it is gone

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Tabito

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x
Out in my garden plum blossoms are scattering
or might it be snow
floating down from the sky--
those distant heavens?

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Tabito

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Okura:
Year?
Age?

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660-733?

Ancient

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28
Okura
was a member of

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Tabito's Kyushu salon

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Okura
Education?

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Chinese

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Okura
Was what in Chikuzen?

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Governor

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Okura
One Chinese thing about his poetry?

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Buddhist knowledge

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x
Would that I might stand a rock through eternity,
unchanged forever--
but life does not allow us
to halt the passing of time.

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Okura

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x
[poor man]...
I have no choice
but to endure the cold...
I eat lumpy salt...
I pullover me
my bedding of coarse hemp,
pile on as clothing
layers of sleeveless cloth coats

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Okura

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x
[destitute man]
My father and mother are beside my pillow
my wife and children
are at the foot of my bed
all sit around me
complaining and groaning
at the cooking place
nothing sends up any steam...

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Okura

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x
though we think of life
as a vale of misery,
a bitter trial,
it is not as if we were birds
who can simply fly away

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Okura

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x
My son Furuhi...
used to play with us...
His body wasted,
changing little by little
he uttered no more
the words he had spoken

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Okura

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x
making offerings,
I utter this petition:
tempt him not afield,
but lead him striaght ahead
show him the way to heaven

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Okura

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x
On the day you cross
over the snowy mountains
on the Koshi Road
remember me, won't you
the one who stayed behind?

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Kasa no Kanamura

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32
most Man'yoshu poems are

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anonymous

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33
most Man'yoshu poems are written by:

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people of high status

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34
Man'yoshu written when?

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7th C and 8th C

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35
Man'yoshu
mostly what form?

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Tanka

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36
define:
jo

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metaphorical preface

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x
In everything
it's new things that are the best,
except for in men:
only men just get better
after they've grown old

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Man'yoshu

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x
Like Naniwa folk
sooty from the smoke of reeds
burned in the hearth
that's that woman of mine!
But still she catches my eye

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Man'yoshu

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x
If I go off now
to the haze covered slopes
of Mt. Fuji,
how will she know where to look
my wife, when she longs for me?

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Man'yoshu

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x
On Musashi Moor
the grasses bend where they will
this way or that way:
but in every little thing
I have yielded to you.

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Man'yoshu

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x
When in the reed leaves the evening mist is spreading and the drakes call out
in the cold of those evenings I will be yearning for you

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Man'yoshu

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37
Lady Kasa
year?
age?

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mid-8th C

ancient

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38
Lady Kasa
a lover of who?

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Otomo no Yakamochi

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39
Lady Kasa's style was considered

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passionate

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x
Faintly I saw you--
a man spied for an instant
as through morning mist
and yet I fear I may die
so clear isthe love I feel

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Lady Kasa

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x
The bell is tolling
telling all the time has come
to go off to bed
but yearning for you so
how could I hope to sleep?

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Lady Kasa

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x
To love someone
who won't love you in return
that's like kowtowing
at a great Buddhist temple
from back behind the fence

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Lady Kasa

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40
Otomo no Yakamochi
year?
age?

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718-785?

Ancient

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Otomo no Yakamochi
believed to be

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the Man'yoshu's chief compiler

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Otomo no Yakamochi's father

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Tabito

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43
Otomo no Yakamochi
wrote in what forms?

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Choka and Tanka

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44
Otomo no Yakamochi
what stopped his poetic career?

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exile for political reasons

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45
Otomo no Yakamochi's poems in the Man'yoshu are

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more than any other poet

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46
Otomo no Yakamochi's focus

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the speaker's reaction

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x
...were my wife with me
she whom I loved so dearly
were we side by side
like drakes out on the water
we would gather sprigs...
but all in this world
are shells of the cicada...

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Otomo no Yakamochi

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x
It is a season
that can come at any time
but still my heart aches
for my wife, who went away
leaving behind a young child

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Otomo no Yakamochi

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x
Had I known the path
that she is traveling now
I would have gone ahead
to put up a barrier-gate
and stopped her going away

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Otomo no Yakamochi

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X
Flowers are blooming
in the courtyard she gazed upon
thus time wends its way
But still my eyes are not dry
of the tears I have shed

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Otomo no Yakamochi

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x
Like the bright blossoms
that make the foot-wearying hills
shine forth with color
but then scatter and are gone
so it is with our great lord

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Otomo no Yakamochi

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x
riding my horse
across the sparkling shallows
at Saho River Ford,
where plovers ever cry
I will come, if you say when

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Otomo no Yakamochi

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x
What anguish it is
to meet you only in dreams
when I wake at night
and reach out to touch you
but my hand finds nothing

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Otomo no Yakamochi

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x
Like the serried ranks
of the emperor's warriors
are these young maidens
jostling buckets in the temple well
after dogtooth violets

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Otomo no Yakamochi

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x
At morning, in bed
I hear something far away
on Imizu River,
rowing off in the morning
a boatman is singing

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Otomo no Yakamochi

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x
Full well do I know
that this passing form of mine
is foam on the water
yet all the more what I want
is to live a thousand years!

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Otomo no Yakamochi

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x
Each time I behold
the seasons slipping away,
I am pained within
my mind thinking of those
I knew once, so long ago

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Otomo no Yakamochi

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47
The Classical Age was abot making poetry

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more Japanese

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48
Dominating clan in the Classical Age

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Fujiwara

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49
Classical Age
poetry's use

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everything; messages

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x
uta-awase
were

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poetry contests

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50
Classical Age
many of what made?

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Imperial anthologies

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Narihira
Year?
Age?

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825-880

Classical

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52
Narihira
full name

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Ariwara no Narihira

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53
Narihira
what kind of man?

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handsome and passionate

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54
Narihira's exploits are partially chronicled in

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Ise Monogatari

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x
Ah, if in this world
there were only no such thing
as cherry blossoms
then perhaps in the springtime
our hearts could be at peace

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Narihira

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x
Scatter at random,
O blossoms of the cherry,
and cloud the heavens,
that you may conceal the path
old age is said to follow

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Narihira

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x
if you are in truth
what your name seems to make you
I will put to you
capital-bird, this question:
do things go well with my love?

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Narihira

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x
Did you come to me?
Was it I who went to you?
I am beyond knowing.
Was it dream or reality?
was I sleeping or awake?

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Narihira

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x
I have wandered lost
in the gloomy darkness
that is my heart
whether dream or reality
let someone else decide

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Narihira

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x
Upon this pathway,
I have long heard others say,
man sets forth at last
yet I had not thought to go
so very soon as today

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Narihira

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x
This Fukakusa
my home for so long a time
if I go away
will it become a wild field
"Deep Grass" deeper than ever?

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Narihira

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x
if it be a field
I will spend the years crying
like a calling quail
and surely you will at least come briefly for some hunting

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Narihira

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55
Ono no Komachi
year?
age?

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850-ish

Classical

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56
Ono no Komachi
Ranks alongside for poetry:

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Narihira

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57
Ono no Komachi
was a

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lady-in-waiting

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x
Later depicted as a cold-hearted woman turned hag

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Ono no Komachi

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58
Ono no Komachi used lots of

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pivot-words

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59
Ono no Komachi's temperament was thought to be

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passionate

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x
Did you come to me
because I dropped off to sleep,
tormented by love?
if I had known I dreamed,
I would not have awakened

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Ono no Komachi

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x
They are only tears
shed for one I cannot see
those fair white jewels
that will not stay in my sleeve
when I seek to wrap them up

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Ono no Komachi

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x
Tears that do no more
than turn into beads on sleeves
are formal indeed
Mine flow in a surging stream
try though I may to halt them

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Ono no Komachi

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x
There is no seaweed
to be gathered in this bay.
Does he not know it
the fisher who comes and comes
until his legs grow weary?

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Ono no Komachi

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x
Autumn nights, it seems
are long by repute alone
scarcely had we met
when morning's first light appeared
leaving everything unsaid

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Ono no Komachi

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x
Yielding to a love
that recognizes no bounds,
I will go by night
for the world will not censure
one who treads the path of dreams

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Ono no Komachi

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x
Though I go to you
ceaselessly along dream paths,
the sum of those trysts
is less than a single glimpse
granted in the waking world

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Ono no Komachi

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x
what is it that fades
without a change in color?
It is the flower
in the heart of those who love
in this world of ours

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Ono no Komachi

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x
in my forlorn state
I feel like a floating reed
ready to break free
at the roots and drift away
if the waters would but tempt me

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Ono no Komachi

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x
When I cannot see him
in the dark of a moonless night,
fire rises in me
leaping in my burning breast,
charring my heart with its flames

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Ono no Komachi

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Archbishop Henjo
years?
age?

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800s

Classical

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Archbishop Henjo
real name

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Yoshimine Munesada

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62
Archbishop Henjo
was born...

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an Imperial prince

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63
Archbishop Henjo
a master of poetry as

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courtly expression

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64
Archbishop Henjo uses

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elaborate metaphors

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x
How puzzling it seems
that lotus leaves untainted
by impurity
should nonetheless
deceive us
displaying dewdrops as gems

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Archbishop Henjo

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x
Blow, cherry blossoms,
in the wind from the mountains;
blow in swirling clouds
and make our guest tarry here,
lost amid flying petals

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Archbishop Henjo

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x
the house is decayed
and its mistress has grown old:
perhaps that is why
garden and fence have vanished
leaving only autumn fields.

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Archbishop Henjo

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Kokinshu
The next great anthology after:

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Man'yoshu

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x
I pray you, warbler,
address your reproachful cries
to the blowing breeze
have I so much as ventured
to lay a hand on the blossoms?

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Kokinshu

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x
Scenting the fragrance
of orange blossoms that wait
the Fifth Month's coming,
I recall a perfumed sleeve
worn by someone long ago

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Kokinshu

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x
O cuckoo singing
amid the summer mountains:
if you have feelings,
do not harrow with your voice
one whose heart already aches.

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Kokinshu

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x
As night settles in,
the cold finds its way through sleeves.
Snow will be falling
at fair Yoshino, falling
in the hills of Yoshino.

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Kokinshu

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x
Although there are days
when waves fail to rise
near Suruga's shore
at Tago, there are no days
when I do not yearn for you.

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Kokinshu

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x
But little better
than the vivid dream I dreamt
was our encounter
in reality's darkness,
black as leapard-flower seeds

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Kokinshu

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x
Yielding to the gale,
it has drifted to a place
I never dreamed of--
the smoke rising from salt fires
tended by Suma seafolk
poem found where?

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Kokinshu

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x
Though you made me think
your love inexhaustible
as sand on a beach,
the thing that proved limitless
was your power to forget

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Kokinshu

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x
In this world of ours
what is there of constancy?
Yesterday's deep pool
in the River of Tomorrow
today becomes a rapid.

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Kokinshu

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x
Beyond enduring
this passion that attacks me
from pillow and foot:
I get up and seat myself
in the middle of the bed.

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Kokinshu

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Tsurayuki
year?
age?

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872-945

Classical

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67
Tsurayuki
full name?

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Ki no Tsurayuki

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68
Tsurayuki
he is both

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praised and vilified

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69
Tsurayuki
poems were usually

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public ones

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70
Tsurayuki made one of the most important documents in Japanese poetry:

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the preface to the Kokinshu

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71
Tsurayuki
another main contribution

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compiled the Kokinshu

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x
Soaking my long sleeves
I took up in my cupped hands
waters that later froze
and today as spring begins
will thay be melting in the wind?

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Tsurayuki

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x
When snow comes in spring
fair season of layered haze
and burgeoning buds
flowers fall in villages
where flowers have yet to bloom

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Tsurayuki

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x
Are they on their way
to pick young greens in the fields
at Kasugano--
those girls who call each other
with the sleeves of their white robes?

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Tsurayuki

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x
Blossoming cherry
who have just this year begun
to understand spring
would that you might never learn
the meaning of scattering

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Tsurayuki

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x
Ah the days the months
I have not touched the white wood
of my spindlewood bow
tensing up, easing down, each night,
with never a moment of sleep

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Tsurayuki

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x
I know that I too may never see tomorrow
but today at least,
while my sun has not yet set
my grief is for another

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Tsurayuki

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x
The hue is as rich and the perfume as fragrant as in days gone by
but how I long for a glimpse
of the one who planted the tree

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Tsurayuki

Front 153

x
Overcome by love
I go out in pursuit of her
the river wind
so cold in the winter night
that the plovers are crying

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Tsurayuki

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72
Kokinshu
mostly all in...
what kind?...

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uta

public

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73
Kokinshu
The last book of spring is mostly

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cherry blossoms

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74
Sone no Yoshitada
year?
age?

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980-1000

Classical

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75
Sone no Yoshitada was known as a

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malcontent

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76
some people thought Sone no Yoshitada's style was

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too colloquial

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x
Cry, then, cry out loud
you cricket in your tangle
of mugwort-timber
the passing of autumn is indeed so sad a time

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Sone no Yoshitada

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x
What a waste, I thought
is anything more precious
than your own life?
that's the way I once put down
a man in love--just like me

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Sone no Yoshitada

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x
A barge of timber
floating down a logging stream
makes a sad pillow
but in summer it's a cool place
to lie down for the night

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Sone no Yoshitada

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x
This woman of mine,
waking up with tangled hair
matted down with sweat
at noon on a summer day
can I think I don't love her?

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Sone no Yoshitada

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77
Izumi Shikibu was notorious for

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her love affairs

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78
Izumi Shikibu
year?
age?

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970-1030

Classical

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x
From one darkness
into another darkness
I soon must go
light the long way before me
moon on the mountain rim

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Izumi Shikibu

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x
For now, I am here,
but can one trust the future?
No, not in a world
that teaches us its ways
with the morning glory

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Izumi Shikibu

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x
After leaving us,
she will be feeling sorry
but for which the more?
No doubt for her own child
just as I for my child

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Izumi Shikibu

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x
Now that he's gone
how I wish I could recall
"That time, yes that time!"
some unhappy time with him
I might wish now to forget.

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Izumi Shikibu

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x
With not a thought
for my black hair's disarray
I lay myself down
soon longing for the one whose hands
have so often brushed it smooth

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Izumi Shikibu

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x
It makes sense, of course
for why should not the stag
be calling so
when one thinks that this night
may be the last of its life?

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Izumi Shikibu

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x
So forlorn am I
that when I see a firefly
out on the marshes,
it looks like my soul rising
from my body in longing

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Izumi Shikibu

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x
What am I to do
if the man I have waited for
should come to me now
not wanting footsteps to disturb
the snow of my garden court?

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Izumi Shikibu

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x
In my idleness
I turn to look at the sky
though it's not as if
the man I am waiting for
will descend from the heavens

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Izumi Shikibu

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78
Monk Noin
year?
age?

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988-1050

Classical

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79
Monk Noin
One of the most famous

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travelers

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80
Monk Noin
a contemporary of

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Izumi Shikibu

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81
utamakura is

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famous places in poetry

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x
Oh that I might share it
with a person of true feeling
the spring vista
on the coast at Naniwa
in the land of Tsu

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Monk Noin

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x
In the Godless Month
I wake at night and listen
to what gives voice
to a storm on this hillside
the sound of falling leaves

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Monk Noin

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x
To a mountain village
at nightfall on a spring day
I came and saw this:
blossoms scattering on echoes
from the vespers bell

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Monk Noin

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82
Toshiyori
Full name

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Minamoto no Toshiyori

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83
Toshiyori
year?
age?

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1055-1129

Classical

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84
Toshiyori compiled

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Kin'yoshu

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x
When a breeze blows by,
drops of water come across
the lotus leaves,
cooling me down at evening
along with the crickets' cries

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Toshiyori

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x
Quails are crying out
on the banks of Mano Cove
as winds from the shore
raise waves in the miscanthus
on an evening in autumn

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Toshiyori

Front 186

x
This world of ours
it comes right along with me
just like a shadow
I try to cast it from my thoughts
but it will not stay away

Back 186

Toshiyori

Front 187

x
Ah, how it pains me
to see you burn so demurely
you glowing fireflies
It should make one sob out loud
life in this world of ours

Back 187

Toshiyori

Front 188

x
When the wind passes
in the pines, autumn already
seems lonely enough
and then a fulling block echoes
through Tamakawa Village

Back 188

Toshiyori

Front 189

85
Lady Daibu
age?

Back 189

Classical

Front 190

86
Lady Daibu
during what war?

Back 190

Gempei Wars

Front 191

x
1180

Back 191

Gempei Wars

Front 192

x
So now once again
I look back with heavy heart
on what was his home
knowing how senseless it is
for my thoughts to linger here

Back 192

Lady Daibu

Front 193

x
Yes, I know we say
the world is all uncertainty
but in the past
no one ever knew despair
so intense as mine

Back 193

Lady Daibu

Front 194

x
Is now the dream?
Or was long ago the dream?
I wander on, lost
unable to convince myself
that this is reality

Back 194

Lady Daibu

Front 195

x
Overcome by grief
I go so far as to wish
to be no longer
and surprise even myself
with the degree of my grief

Back 195

Lady Daibu

Front 196

x
Thinking my sadness
to come from my surroundings,
I fled to this place
to hear wild geese crying out
all lodgings are the same

Back 196

Lady Daibu

Front 197

x
You, orange tree--
please answer me this question:
the Fifth Month has passed,
but might you still have the scent
of the sleeves he wore long ago?

Back 197

Lady Daibu

Front 198

85
Who ruled during the Early Medieval?

Back 198

warrior clans

Front 199

86
what was compiled during the Early Medieval?

Back 199

The Shin Kokinshu

Front 200

87
one problem poets had during the Early Medieval

Back 200

Factional squabbles

Front 201

88
Shunzei
full name

Back 201

Fujiwara no Shunzei

Front 202

89
Shunzei
age?
year?

Back 202

Classical/Early Medieval

1114-1204

Front 203

x
Who lived 91 years?

Back 203

Shunzei

Front 204

90
Shunzei
rank

Back 204

mid-high

Front 205

91
Shunzei compiled

Back 205

Senzaishu

Front 206

x
who said "Old words, with new feeling"?

Back 206

Shunzei

Front 207

x
who thought Genji Monogatari was a necessary part of any poet's training?

Back 207

Shunzei

Front 208

x
def: the sort of sad, understated beauty that only an educated sensibility could detect

Back 208

aware

Front 209

x
aware, yugen, yojo, and sabi can be attributed to

Back 209

Shunzei

Front 210

x
an aura of mystery, allusiveness, and depth of symbolic meaning

Back 210

Yugen

Front 211

x
overtones surrounding courly words and images

Back 211

Yojo

Front 212

x
an effect of loneliness that often goes hand in hand with yugen, especially in monochromatic descriptions of nature

Back 212

sabi

Front 213

x
rich, romantic beauty often associated with the atmosphere of the court and its traditions

Back 213

en

Front 214

92
Shunzei's comfort zone

Back 214

both public and private

Front 215

x
a technique in which the writer alludes to a famous poem from the past in order to add depth and overtones to his own creation

Back 215

honkadori

Front 216

x
The sound of the wind
the sight of the rocky crags
the incoming waves
all are rough, like this ocean shore
but what of you, cherry tree?

Back 216

Shunzei

Front 217

x
LAMENTS
How is it that ducks
are able to stay afloat
out on the water
while I feel myself sinking
even here on the land?

Back 217

Shunzei

Front 218

x
Daylight fades away
and the autumn wind on the fields
pierces to the soul:
a quail cries from the deep grass
of Fukakusa Village
who?
allusion?

Back 218

Shunzei

Narihira

Front 219

x
Musing on the past
I sit in my hut of grass
amidst night showers
must you add my tears to the rain,
you cuckoo of the mountain?

Back 219

Shunzei

Front 220

x
After a snowfall
the sakaki on the peak
are covered over
and polished by the moonlight
Kagu's Heavenly Hill

Back 220

Shunzei

Front 221

x
Enough: so be it!
But at least promise to meet me
in the next world--
for your coldness hurtsw me so
that I may not last too long

Back 221

Shunzei

Front 222

x
A pitiful state!
I napped, and met you in a dream
a fleeting moment
a memory that endures,
overpowering my mind.

Back 222

Shunzei

Front 223

x
The radiant moon
circles on its course above,
Beyond the clouds
but here below it is blossoms
that provide our world with light

Back 223

Shunzei

Front 224

x
How many times now
have I crossed over hill crests
with the image
of blossoms leading me on--
toward nothing but white clouds?

Back 224

Shunzei

Front 225

93
Saigyo
year
age

Back 225

1100s

Classical/Early Medieval

Front 226

94
Saigyo's friend

Back 226

Shunzei

Front 227

95
Saigyo's family

Back 227

low-ranking military

Front 228

x
took the tonsure at age 22

Back 228

Saigyo

Front 229

x
created the idea of the "reluctant recluse"

Back 229

Saigyo

Front 230

x
Shunzei warned young poets about Saigyo's

Back 230

spare style

Front 231

x
who wanted to die beneath the full moon and surrounded by blossoms in the spring?

Back 231

Saigyo

Front 232

x
I could not have known:
that to the moonlight I saw
far off in the clouds
I woudl be giving my sleeves
as lodging for the night

Back 232

Saigyo

Front 233

x
This morning, the ice
that bound the rocks together
will begin to melt
water down beneath the moss
seeking a pathway away

Back 233

Saigyo

Front 234

x
The pathway I marked
when last year I made my way
into Yoshino--
I abandon now to visit
blossoms I have not yet seen.

Back 234

Saigyo

Front 235

x
Even one who claims
to no longer have a heart
feels this sad beauty:
snipea flying up from a marsh
on an evening in autumn

Back 235

Saigyo

Front 236

x
Near my little hut out in the mountain paddies
a stag calls out,
startling me so that I jump
and statrle him in turn

Back 236

Saigyo

Front 237

x
Those crickets calling
in teh chill air of deep night:
with autumn's advance
they must be failing--voices
sounding ever farther away

Back 237

Saigyo

Front 238

x
That spring long ago
at Naniwa in Tsu
was it all a dream?
Now only dead leaves on the reeds
rustle in the passing wind.
who?
allusion?

Back 238

Saigyo

Noin

Front 239

x
As smoke that drifts
from the peak of Fuji
fading into sky
with no sure destination
so is the trend of my passion

Back 239

Saigyo

Front 240

x
A hard thing it is
to be born in human form
and every man
who floats lazily through life
must sink to the depths again

Back 240

Saigyo

Front 241

x
Raindrops, I first though
as I lay awake in my bed--
but what I heard
was the unbroken patter
of leaves giving in to storm winds

Back 241

Saigyo

Front 242

x
I don't even know
whose last remains they hold
but how fearsome
on the slopes of Toribe Hill
are the graves in evening light!

Back 242

Saigyo

Front 243

x
I have given up
all hope of having visitors
in my mountain home.
If not for solitude
how dismal my life would be!

Back 243

Saigyo

Front 244

x
On that winter night
when plovers were crying out
in the river wind
the feeling he had back then
is the same one I had too
who?
allusion?

Back 244

Saigyo

Tsurayuki

Front 245

x
Out in the high waves
in the sea off Ashiya
a boat heads for shore:
oh that I too might make my way
so easily through the world!

Back 245

Saigyo

Front 246

x
Gone to ruin now
in a field rank with grasses
is the old house.
Dusk falls on the bamboo fence
where a quail is crying

Back 246

Monk Jakuren

Front 247

x
With my cupped hands
I disturbed its reflection
in a mountain spring
and then found the moon had set--
leaving me still wanting more

Back 247

Archbishop Jien

Front 248

x
I left tracks behind when I walked out on the snow
of my garden court--
will people passing by now
think I have a visitor?

Back 248

Archbishop Jien

Front 249

x
in fair Yoshino
haze is trailing on the hills
and in a village
where white snow was just falling
we know that spring has come

Back 249

Go-Kyogoku Yoshitsune

Front 250

x
At the old capital
in the hills of Yoshino
the blossoms are gone
it is through empty branches
that spring breezes are blowing

Back 250

Go-Kyogoku Yoshitsune

Front 251

x
In hazy moonlight
the image of my lover
takes night lodging--
here in teardrops on my sleeve
as in that springtime of old
who?
allusion?

Back 251

Shunzei's daughter

Narihira

Front 252

96
Princess Shikishi
year?
age?

Back 252

1201

Early Medieval

Front 253

97
what's odd about Princess Shikishi?

Back 253

she never participated in contests

Front 254

98
what's great about Princess Shikishi?

Back 254

Her versatility

Front 255

x
With the blossoms gone
I look for no special color
as I gaze afar--
and then from the empty sky
spring rain begins to fall.
who?
allusion?

Back 255

Princess Shikishi

Narihira

Front 256

x
Here I am, waiting
but trying to keep my heart from listening
while it ignores my efforts
that wind blowing over the reeds

Back 256

Princess Shikishi

Front 257

x
In the stillness
that comes with each new dawning,
I look with sadness
on those who are still dreaming
in the darkness of deep night

Back 257

Princess Shikishi

Front 258

x
On the Sea of Grebes
a boat is making its way
beyond the haze--
with its sail billowing forth
to make a vista of spring.
Who?
Allusion?

Back 258

Princess Shikishi

Genji Monogatari

Front 259

x
Ah, how I have wished
for something besides blossoms
to give me comfort!
So scatter then--be as aloof
as I will be watching you

Back 259

Princess Shikishi

Front 260

x
Was it him I saw?
On a night when I don't see him,
a glimpse of the moon
brings with it a cold visage
that could just as well be his

Back 260

Princess Shikishi

Front 261

x
So rich in my hand
was the scent of the water
that I searched upstream--
and found it flowing there
beneath a wild orange tree

Back 261

Princess Shikishi

Front 262

x
Here in the twilight
as the wind goes passing by
in leaves on the reeds
i forget for the moment
that of late he's stopped coming

Back 262

Princess Shikishi

Front 263

x
The kind of place where the way a traveler's tracks
disappear in snow
is something you get used to
such a place is this world of ours.

Back 263

Princess Shikishi

Front 264

99
Go-Toba is

Back 264

a retired emperor

Front 265

100
Go-Toba
Had trouble with

Back 265

Teika

Front 266

101
Go-Toba compiled

Back 266

the Shin Kokinshu

Front 267

102
Go-Toba
year
age

Back 267

1180-1239

Early Medieval

Front 268

x
taketakaki yo is

Back 268

Lofty style

Front 269

x
in the end, Go-Toba

Back 269

died in exile

Front 270

x
Dimly, only dimly--
but, yes, spring has come at last
to the sky above:
in haze trailing the slopes
of Kagu's Heavenly Hill

Back 270

Go-Toba

Front 271

x
Looking far, I see
the haze move low on the slopes
along the Minase River--
and wonder how I ever thought
autumn the season for dusk

Back 271

Go-Toba

Front 272

x
Autumn progresses.
so cry out, then you cricket
on this frosty night!
It shines a little colder now--
the moon in that mugwort patch
who?
allusion?

Back 272

Go-Toba

Sone no Yoshitada

Front 273

x
A cricket cries out
near my straw mattress, in the cold
of a frosty night--
as I spread my single robe
to spend the night alone

Back 273

Fujiwara no Yoshitsune

Front 274

103
Teika
full name

Back 274

Fujiwara no Teika

Front 275

104
Teika
Year
age?

Back 275

1162-1241

Early Medieval

Front 276

105
Teika was an heir of

Back 276

Shunzei

Front 277

106
Teika had trouble with

Back 277

Go-Toba

Front 278

107
Teika was what kind of person?

Back 278

a short-tempered perfectionist

Front 279

x
a variation on Shunzei's yugen that added to "mystery and depth", a romantic, dreamy atmosphere achieved by rich imagery and complex syntax

Back 279

Yoen

Front 280

x
"sincerity of feeling"

Back 280

ushin

Front 281

x
the Shin chokusenshu was compiled by

Back 281

Teika

Front 282

108
Teika practiced what new-at-the-time art?

Back 282

renga

Front 283

x
"Think of the past!"--
so the moonlight seems to say,
itself a remnant
of autumns long since gone,
that I could never know

Back 283

Teika

Front 284

x
An apparition!
Don't even call it a dream.
In this world of ours,
what we hear about, what we see
as transience--this is it!

Back 284

Teika

Front 285

x
On this spring night
my floating bridge of dreams
has broken away:
and lifting off a far peak--
a cloudbank trailing in the sky
who?
allusion?

Back 285

Teika

Genji Monogatari

Front 286

x
The years have gone by,
with my prayers still unanswered--
as Hase's bell
signals evening from its peak
sounding somehow far away
who?
allusion?

Back 286

Teika

Toshiyori

Front 287

x
Those long black tresses
that I roughly pushed aside:
who?
allusion?
now strang upon strand
they rise in my mind's eye
each night as I lie down.

Back 287

Teika

Izumi Shikibu

Front 288

x
While I gazed out,
barely conscious that I too
was growing old,
how many times have blossoms scattered on the spring wind?
who?
allusion?

Back 288

Teika

Komachi

Front 289

x
So, this is what
I have heard about--the peak
of Ikoma Mountain
What had looked to me like snow
it was a grove of blossoms!

Back 289

Teika

Front 290

x
If only for this one night
let us share a pillow
Till now I relied
on the straight path of my dreams as reality.

Back 290

Teika

Front 291

x
hyakushu uta

Back 291

"hundred-poem sequence"

Front 292

x
Ogura hyakunin isshu was compiled by

Back 292

Teika

Front 293

109
Ogura hyakunin isshu later became

Back 293

a New Year's card game

Front 294

x
Spring has gone away
and summer come, it would seem--
from those white hemp robes
laid to dryin in the sunlight
on Kagu's Heavenly Hill
From?
Who?

Back 294

"One Hundred Poems"

Empress Jito

Front 295

x
At Tago Bay
I came out, and looked afar--
to see the hemp-white
of Mt. Fuji's lofty peak
under a flurry of snow.
from?
who?

Back 295

"One Hundred Poems"

Yamabe no Akahito

Front 296

x
Deep back in the hills
a stag walks through red leaves,
calling for his mate--
and ah, when I hear his voice,
how forlorn the autumn seems
from?

Back 296

"One Hundred Poems"

Front 297

x
Behold my flower:
its beauty wasted away
on idle concerns
that have kept me gazing out
as time coursed by with the rains
from?
who?

Back 297

"One Hundred Poems"

Ono no Komachi

Front 298

x
I am forsaken--
but about myself I don't care.
Instead I must fear
for the life you swore away
when we made our vows of love
From?
Who?

Back 298

"One Hundred Poems"

Lady Ukon

Front 299

x
When one lies alone
lamenting the whole night through
until break of day,
how slowly the time goes by--
ah, but yes-you wouldn't know
from?
who?

Back 299

"One Hundred Poems"

Mother of Michitsuna

Front 300

x
Those plover crying
between Awaji Isle and land
how many long nights
do they keep the guards from sleep
at their posts on suma's shore.
from?
who?
allusion

Back 300

"One Hundred Poems"

Minamoto no Kanemasa

Genji Monogatari

Front 301

x
From this world of ours
there is simply no escape:
even in deep hills
where I go to flee my cares
I hear the call of a stag
from?
who?

Back 301

"One Hundred Poems"

Shunzei

Front 302

x
A cricket cries out
near my straw mattress, in the cold of a frosty night--
as I spread my single robe
to spend the night alone.
from?

Back 302

"One Hundred Poems"

Front 303

x
On Matsuo Beach
I wait in the pines at dusk
for one who won't come--
and like the blazing salt mounds, I too am consumed by fire
From?
Who?

Back 303

"One Hundred Poems"

Teika

Front 304

x
In the stone-built palace
the old eaves are overgrown
with Memory Fern--
but ah, what a past is here
still left to be remembered
from:
who:

Back 304

"One Hundred Poems"

Go-Toba's son

Front 305

110
Minamoto no Sanetomo was taught by

Back 305

Teika

Front 306

111
One problem with Minamoto no Sanetomo's style:

Back 306

it was too archaic

Front 307

x
take means

Back 307

loftiness

Front 308

x
On a white sandspit
where seagulls have come to earth
snow has been falling--
and in the clearing sky above,
the clear gleam of the moon.

Back 308

Minamoto no Sanetomo

Front 309

x
By now the spring rain
must have drenched hinm to the skin
as he walks that path
through the foot-wearying hills.
Who is he, though, that mountain man?

Back 309

Minamoto no Sanetomo

Front 310

x
Our life in this world
is like the image one sees
inside a mirror--
something that's not really there,
but then not really not there.

Back 310

Minamoto no Sanetomo

Front 311

x
From the broad sea,
waves roar in with a crashing
hard against the shore--
breaking, then shattering,
bursting, and scattering!

Back 311

Minamoto no Sanetomo

Front 312

x
In midnight gloom
as black as leopard-flower seeds,
off beyond the clouds,
hidden behind layers of cloud--
I hear wild geese caling.

Back 312

Minamoto no Sanetomo

Front 313

x
In dawn's first dim light
no trace of the boat marks the waves
where plovers cry out
loudly, as if in complaint.
But, alas, how long will they last?

Back 313

Minamoto no Sanetomo

Front 314

x
With each passing spring
this old, rotting cherry tree
must think fondly
of what it was in the past--
and yet it does no good.

Back 314

Minamoto no Sanetomo

Front 315

x
Teika's work became

Back 315

the model for medieval poets

Front 316

x
Who won out, practically, from Teika's descendants

Back 316

the Nijo line

Front 317

x
Who won out, artistically, from Teika's descendants

Back 317

the Kyogoku line

Front 318

112
Kyogoku Tamekane's was what to Teika?

Back 318

his grandson

Front 319

113
Tamekane's place?

Back 319

the most powerful poet of the Kyogoku family

Front 320

x
was exiled twice

Back 320

Tamekane

Front 321

x
Sifting through branches,
the rays of the morning sun
are still very few--
and how deep is the coolness
back among the bamboos!

Back 321

Tamekane

Front 322

x
He passes the inn
where he was to spend the night--
drawn on by the moon.
Already on tomorrow's path
is the midnight traveler

Back 322

Tamekane

Front 323

x
With him bound by fear
and I too much reserved
to ask him to come,
this night we should be sharing
simply wastes itself away

Back 323

Tamekane

Front 324

x
Starting, then stopping, the hail moves through my garden
all at a slant;
shining banks of cloud
darken in the sky above

Back 324

Tamekane

Front 325

x
To avoid getting wet
I took cover a moment
in the shade of pines--
where the rain made me listen
to the sound of the wind
from?
who?

Back 325

Tamekane

Retired emperor Fushimi

Front 326

x
In the midst of love
I see one thing in everything
within my gaze--
not a tree, not a blade of grass
but is a vision of you
from?
who?

Back 326

Tamekane

Retired emperor Fushimi

Front 327

x
The river plovers--
is the chill of the moonlight
keeping them awake?
Every time I start from sleep
I hear their voices calling
from?
who?
allusion?

Back 327

Tamekane

Eifuki Mon-in

Tsurayuki

Front 328

x
He made no promise--
so I try to tell myself
not to be bitter,
until this long night too
ends with a lonely dawn
from?
who?

Back 328

Tamekane

Eifuku Mon-in

Front 329

x
In the Late Medieval Age, government fell from ___ to ___

Back 329

Kamakura

Ashikaga

Front 330

x
Ashikaga, also known as...

Back 330

The Muromachi Shogunate

Front 331

114
Tamekane
year?
age?

Back 331

1254-1332

Early Medieval

Front 332

115
Fujiwara no Teika
year?
age?

Back 332

late 1100s

Early Medieval

Front 333

116
Go-Toba
year?
age?

Back 333

1180-1239

Early Medieval

Front 334

117
In the Late Medieval Period, who began writing poetry?

Back 334

shoguns and warriors

Front 335

118
In the Late Medieval Period, what gained popularity?

Back 335

Renga

Front 336

119
In the Late Medieval Pd, who were the patrons?

Back 336

Wealthy warriors and merchants

Front 337

120
Tonna
year?
age?

Back 337

Late 1200s

Late Medieval

Front 338

121
Tonna's mentor

Back 338

Saigyo

Front 339

122
Tonna cared a great deal about

Back 339

following in Saigyo's footsteps

Front 340

123
on which side of the divide was Tonna?

Back 340

Nijo

Front 341

124
Tonna's guiding ideal:

Back 341

ushin

Front 342

x
On Miyagi Moor
in the gloom beneath the trees
fireflies dart about--
more numerous than dewdrops
in their tangle of light

Back 342

Tonna

Front 343

x
I told myself
that I would not expect him
to come this evening;
yet I can't give up fretting,
waiting for I don't know what

Back 343

Tonna

Front 344

x
Up from the paddies
where the moon has stayed the night,
a snipe leaves its roost--
rising up from the icepack
into the dawning sky

Back 344

Tonna

Front 345

x
If you cast it all away
the load will get much lighter
don't brush it off
and it will break in the snow--
bamboo by the window

Back 345

Tonna

Front 346

x
After the village
has grown old, still there's someone
left living there.
With the wind in the reeds
comes the sound of a fulling block

Back 346

Tonna

Front 347

125
Fugashu is attributed to

Back 347

the Kyogoku school

Front 348

126
who is responsible for Fugashu? (2):

Back 348

Emperor Fushimi

his wife Eifuku Mon-in

Front 349

x
You returning geese,
please pass this message along--
how in my travels,
here on my pillow of grass,
I long so for my woman!
From
Who

Back 349

Fugashu

Tsurayuki

Front 350

x
Even at the sound
of a water rail knocking
I might have gone out
and opened my dor of black pine--
just to give myself some hope
from
who

Back 350

Fugashu

Izumi Shikibu

Front 351

x
With no way now
for me to meet my woman,
must I burn within
like the high peak of Fuji
in the lnad of Suruga?
From

Back 351

Fugashu

Front 352

x
Anthology focussed on love

Back 352

Fugashu

Front 353

x
Unable to sleep,
I lose myself so wholly
in thoughts of love
that my heart becomes one
with the color of my lamp
from

Back 353

Fugashu

Front 354

x
Of so little worth
have been the days and the months
I wasted waiting
that if I were to die now
it would be no great loss
from:

Back 354

Fugashu

Front 355

x
"It's over," I thought,
and decided to regard him
as cruel at heart.
But what pain it causes me
when he asks, "How have you been?"
from:

Back 355

Fugashu

Front 356

125
In the Late Medieval Pd, what sect was thriving?

Back 356

Zen

Front 357

x
What did the Zen sect think of poetry?

Back 357

frivolous

Front 358

x
What is no part
of the words we toss aside
so casually,
leaves not a trace of itself
in the marks of a brush
from
who

Back 358

Zen Monks

Dogen Kigen

Front 359

x
Long as the long tail
of pheasants of the mountains,
the foot-wearying hills:
so long is the night before me--
and yet it too ends with dawn
from
who
allusion

Back 359

Zen Monks

Dogen Kigen

Hitomaro

Front 360

x
Should someone ask me
"Just what sort of thing is it--
what you call Buddha?"
I say, "Icicles hanging
from a mosquito net
from
who

Back 360

Zen Monks

Dogen Kigen

Front 361

x
In a snowfall
that obscures the winter grasses,
a white heron--
using his own form
to hide himself away
from
who

Back 361

Zen Monks

Dogen Kigen

Front 362

x
Each spring it's my heart that stirs first of all; I revise my poems, chanting them endlessly. Rain on peach blossoms by the creek--a thousand tears; smoke in the willows on the bank--a mound of sorrows
from
who

Back 362

Zen Monks

Tetsuan Dosho

Front 363

x
When there is nowhere
that you have determined
to call your own,
then no matter where you go
you are always going home.
from
who

Back 363

Zen Monks

Muso Soseki

Front 364

x
The best way for men to soolvetheir problems is to give up--
scurrying about, east and west...
from
who

Back 364

Zen Monks

Ryushu Shutaku

Front 365

x
sparrow in the bamboos

He doesn't go for the grain...
perching for the night atop a tall bamboo
from
who

Back 365

Zen Monks

Gido Shushin

Front 366

x
Autumn leaves go on the wind...
Without a thought the Poet-Monk sweeps them into the creek
Not at all like the way he treats falling blossoms in spring
from
who

Back 366

Zen Monks

Ichu Tsujo

Front 367

126
Three Poets at Minase functions as

Back 367

a primer for aspiring poets

Front 368

x
Sogi, Shohaku, Socho

Back 368

the "Three Poets at Minase"

Front 369

127
Three Poets at Minase was given

Back 369

in memory of Go-Toba

Front 370

128
Three Poets at Minase
Rule 1

Back 370

Each verse must stand up on its own, esp grammatically

Front 371

129
Three Poets at Minase
Rule 2

Back 371

Each vers must combine with the one before it into a complete poetic statement

Front 372

130
Three Poets at Minase
Rule 3

Back 372

The poem must follow guidelines on how many of what is allowed

Front 373

131
Three Poets at Minase
Main focus

Back 373

links between verses

Front 374

x
linked-verse sequences are highly

Back 374

allusive

Front 375

x
Some snow still remains
as haze moves low on the slopes
toward evening
from
who
allusion

Back 375

Three Poets at Minase

Sogi

Go-Toba

Front 376

x
Flowing water, far away-
and a plum-scented village.
from
who

Back 376

Three Poets at Minase

Shohaku

Front 377

x
Out on frost-laden fields
autumn has come to its end
from
who

Back 377

Three Poets at Minase

Socho

Front 378

x
With no care at all
for the insects crying out,
grasses wither away
from
who

Back 378

Three Poets at Minase

Sogi

Front 379

x
"Has nightfall come?"-
birds cry out above, making
their way toward home
from
who

Back 379

Three Poets at Minase

Socho

Front 380

x
This too can serve as a friend-
the sky as dusk descends
from
who

Back 380

Three Poets at Minase

Sogi

Front 381

x
Today, clouds replace
the blossoms that scattered-
crossing a peak.
from
who
allusion

Back 381

Three Poets at Minase

Socho

Shunzei

Front 382

x
A dim moon, yes,
but obscure in its beauty?
Wait a moment--see
from
who
allusion

Back 382

Three Poets at Minase

Sogi

Princess Shikishi

Front 383

x
Of no use at all,
the call of the pine cricket
from wormwood tangles
from
who
allusion

Back 383

Three Poets at Minase

Shohaku

Genji Monogatari

Front 384

x
A quail cries out
where dusk falls beyond a cliff--
on a cold day
from
who
allusions 2

Back 384

Three Poets at Minase

Sogi

Shunzei

Toshiyori

Front 385

x
That it will not stay forgotten
makes you hate the world the more
from
who

Back 385

Three Poets at Minase

Socho

Front 386

x
So thoroughly
have I hid myself away--
they'll think I'm dead
from
who

Back 386

Three Poets at Minase

Socho

Front 387

132
In the Early Modern Age there was a rise in:

Back 387

pop culture

Front 388

133
The main form of poetry in the Early Modern Age

Back 388

haikai

Front 389

134
Basho
full name

Back 389

Matsuo Basho

Front 390

135
Basho
year
age

Back 390

1644-1694

Early Modern

Front 391

136
Basho's penname based on

Back 391

a plantain tree

Front 392

137
Motto of Basho's time:

Back 392

"new words, old heart"

Front 393

x
karumi

Back 393

lightness

Front 394

x
Looking far, I see,
I gaze out at, I behold--
autumn in Suma

Back 394

Basho

Front 395

x
A man that eats
his meal amidst morning glories--
that's what I am!

Back 395

Basho

Front 396

x
To age is enough--
and then to have to watch showers
from Sogi's hut

Back 396

Basho

Front 397

x
Azaleas all arranged;
and in their shadow--
a woman cutting up codfish

Back 397

Basho

Front 398

x
At an old pond,
a frog takes a sudden plunge.
The sound of water

Back 398

Basho

Front 399

x
You stoke up the fire
and I'llshow you something fine:
a big ball of snow!

Back 399

Basho

Front 400

x
I'll get drunk, then sleep--
among the wild pinks blossoming
on top of a rock

Back 400

Basho

Front 401

x
Here in the moonlight,
the Four Gates, the Four Sects--
they're all one.

Back 401

Basho

Front 402

x
My water jar cracks--
broken by ice in the night
as I lie awake.

Back 402

Basho

Front 403

x
Ah, such stillness:
that the very rocks are pierced by cicadas' drone!

Back 403

Basho

Front 404

x
The autumn wind--
and a field of graves at Ise
adding to the chill

Back 404

Basho

Front 405

x
First winter shower--
even a monkey is wanting
a straw raincoat

Back 405

Basho

Front 406

x
He'll be dying soon,
but there's not a hint of it
in the cicada's voice.

Back 406

Basho

Front 407

x
The moon at the full--
and not a single handsome
face in the room

Back 407

Basho

Front 408

n
Nara was the

Back 408

first permanent capital

Front 409

n
Choka are

Back 409

long poems

Front 410

n
tanka are

Back 410

short poems

Front 411

n
3 main topics in the Man'yoshu

Back 411

Love
Elegy
Misc

Front 412

n
one of autumn's uses

Back 412

the end of a relationship

Front 413

x
waiting for you,
I languish, full of longing--
and then the blinds
of my house flutter slightly,
blown by the autumn wind

Back 413

Princess Nukada

Front 414

n
what does most Japanese poetry leave out?

Back 414

Honorifics

Front 415

n
After death, Hitomaro was

Back 415

deified as a god of poetry

Front 416

n
Hitomaro was the first

Back 416

professional poet

Front 417

n
another word for envoy

Back 417

hanka

Front 418

n
seaweed brings to mind 2

Back 418

hair; graceful movement

Front 419

n
Akahito wrote the first what?

Back 419

poem about mt. Fuji

Front 420

n
Akahito was prized for his 2

Back 420

hanka
tanka

Front 421

n
when do plum blossoms appear?

Back 421

early spring

Front 422

n
Tabito's religion

Back 422

Taoist

Front 423

n
Tabito's favorite thing

Back 423

sake

Front 424

n
Tabito teases

Back 424

Okura

Front 425

n
Okura cares about

Back 425

poverty

Front 426

n
Tabito and Okura?

Back 426

Rivals

Front 427

x
The full bloom of youth--
might it still come back to me?
Or must I suppose
that I will never agains see
the capital at Nara?

Back 427

Tabito

Front 428

x
Out in my garden
plum blossoms are scattering
Or might it be snow
floating down from the sky--
those distant heavens

Back 428

Tabito

Front 429

n
Sake to a Daoist

Back 429

a stage of enlightenment

Front 430

n
who flourished around 850

Back 430

Ono no Komachi

Front 431

x
who was sometimes just represented by the image of a skull?

Back 431

Ono no Komachi

Front 432

n
Ono no Komachi's opposite in fate:
why?

Back 432

Narihira

He became a Bodhisattva

Front 433

x
Who was said to have made a man wait for her for 100 nights?

Back 433

Ono no Komachi

Front 434

n
Komachi is the first

Back 434

named female poet

Front 435

N
Komachi talks mostly about

Back 435

dreams

Front 436

x
That man's life is but a dream--
is what we now come to know.
Its house abandoned,
the garden has become home
to butterflies

Back 436

Sogi

Front 437

n
zo=

Back 437

!

Front 438

n
Rodd-is there a woman's voice in Waka?

Back 438

only an overly passionate one

Front 439

n
the base feeling, essence of Japanese poetry

Back 439

hon'i

Front 440

n
Ki no Tsurayuki wrote poems to

Back 440

go on screens

Front 441

n
most of the kks poems are

Back 441

tanka

Front 442

n
kks poems organized by

Back 442

subject

Front 443

n
Mono no aware=

Back 443

reflection on ephemerality, ahh feeling

Front 444

n
waka:
wa:
ka:

Back 444

Japanese poetry

peace/harmony

song

Front 445

n
if the description says "on"

Back 445

the poem is on an assigned topic

Front 446

n
compilers may have filled spaces...

Back 446

with their own poems

Front 447

n
originally, the loser of a poetry contest

Back 447

would have to throw a drinking party for the winner

Front 448

n
utamakura was

Back 448

a poetic place name

Front 449

n
kokoro 2

Back 449

heart, the seed

Front 450

n
kotoba 2

Back 450

words, the plant that kokoro grows into

Front 451

n
all living creatures have

Back 451

uta

Front 452

n
in the KKS, poetry about

Back 452

politics

Front 453

x
over the paddies
of Toba in Yamashiro
I look out and see
where this morning, so faintly,
the autumn wind is blowing

Back 453

Sone no Yoshitada

Front 454

n
KKS's hallmark:

Back 454

Q + A style

Front 455

n
mitate=

Back 455

elegant confusion

Front 456

n
Izumi Shikibu image

Back 456

morning glory

Front 457

n
Hands and hair were symbols of

Back 457

the Heian woman

Front 458

n
when does the soul leave the body?

Back 458

during times of extreme emotions

Front 459

n
Shunzei cemented thecentrality of

Back 459

the poetic house

Front 460

n
Shunzei compiled

Back 460

Senzaishu

Front 461

n
feelings/overtones from an allusion to old works

Back 461

Yojo

Front 462

n
Rich romantic beauty

Back 462

En

Front 463

n
allusion to an old poem

Back 463

honkadori

Front 464

n
Honkadori differs from Yojo in that it requires___and contains___

Back 464

footnotes

a certain amount of the old poem

Front 465

n
Shikan

Back 465

deep meditative contemplation of a topic

Front 466

x
Daylight fades away
and the autumn wind on the fields
pierces to the soul:
a quail cries from the deep grass
of Fukakusa Village

Back 466

Shunzei

Front 467

x
From beneath the pines
of the Fushimi Hills
I look out afar--
as dawn breaks over paddies
where blows the autumn wind

Back 467

Shunzei

Front 468

n
what does Lafleur highlight?

Back 468

Saigyo's Buddhist readings

Front 469

n
one of Saigyo's favorite images

Back 469

moon

Front 470

n
Saigyo's death poem is lacking

Back 470

hon'i

Front 471

n
Saigyo's favorite of his poems was

Back 471

the one with smoke coming out of mt. Fuji

Front 472

x
Even one who claims
to no longer have a heart
feels this sad beauty
snipes flying up from a marsh
on an evening in autumn

Back 472

Saigyo

Front 473

x
The clouds on the peak
that made me wait for the moon
have all cleared away
It must have a kindly heart
this first shower of winter

Back 473

Saigyo

Front 474

x
In a dream I saw
the winds of spring scattering
the cherry blossoms--
and after I woke, the sound was still rustling in my breast

Back 474

Saigyo

Front 475

n
The KKS has two religious books:

Back 475

Buddhist and Shinto

Front 476

n
The KKS has how many prefaces?

Back 476

2

Front 477

n
the SKKS was a "good face on

Back 477

a dark age"

Front 478

n
Teika's age compared to Go-Toba

Back 478

Much older

Front 479

n
to have kokoro, but less ornamented

Back 479

ushin

Front 480

x
Blossoms of plum
perfume my sleeves with their scent
vying there for space
with shafts of sparkling moonlight
spilling down through the eaves

Back 480

Teika

Front 481

x
Looking far, I see
no sign of cherry blossoms
or cirmson leaves
a reed-thatched hut on a bay
on an evening in autumn

Back 481

Teika

Front 482

x
On her mat of straw,
she waits as the autumn wind
deepens the night
spreading moonlight for her robe--
the Maiden of Uji River

Back 482

Teika

Front 483

x
Wave though they may,
those sleeve-like plumes of grass
can do no good--
at a house no one visits,
by an old bamboo fence

Back 483

Teika

Front 484

x
the "One Hundred Poems" are mostly

Back 484

love

Front 485

x
opens with 2 rulers and 2 famous Man'yoshu poets; ends with a father and son

Back 485

100 poems

Front 486

n
Teika obviously loved

Back 486

the imagination

Front 487

x
Behold my flower:
its beauty wasted away
on idle concerns
that have kept me gazing out
as time coursed by with the rains

Back 487

Ono no Komachi

Front 488

x
I can't even think
of a soul who might tell me,
"How I pity you"--
and so I go on living
but wasting my life away

Back 488

Lord Kentoku

Front 489

x
So do I love you--
but how can I find the words
to tell you I yearn
like Ibuki's moxa weeds
consuming me from within?

Back 489

Fujiwara no Sanekata

Front 490

x
That every new dawn
leads to another nightfall--
yes, this I know.
Yet still how much I resent
the first faint light of day!

Back 490

Fujiwara no Michinobu

Front 491

x
Because of one night--
brief as the space between joints
on Naniwa's reeds--
am I to be a buoy,
tossed by waves of love?

Back 491

Betto

Front 492

n
What did Jien do?

Back 492

helped people in love

Front 493

n
Sanetomo's problem

Back 493

too direct

Front 494

n
Tameko was

Back 494

Tamekane's superior sister

Front 495

n
Tamekane is famous for his poem

Back 495

where slanting hail hits his window

Front 496

n
Tonna relied heavily on

Back 496

honkadori

Front 497

x
In summer grasses
the leaves on the reeds disappear
in the rank growth,
but revealing them in passing
is the dusk wind on the fields

Back 497

Tonna

Front 498

x
Here I am, waiting
but trying to keep my heart
from listening,
while it ignores my efforts--
that wind blowing over the reeds

Back 498

Princess Shikishi

Front 499

x
I keep on waiting,
with my heart encouraging
the sun on its way:
"Will the day never end?"
"It is taking far too long!"

Back 499

Tamekane

Front 500

x
Fugashu
waka is about

Back 500

governing

Front 501

x
Dogen Kigen
paradox

Back 501

words say that words don't hold the truth

Front 502

x
Muso Soseki:
poetry may be

Back 502

a way to enlightenment

Front 503

x
Sesson Yubai's claim to fame

Back 503

cancelled his death sentence through poetry

Front 504

x
Okkyu Sojun's other name

Back 504

crazy cloud

Front 505

n
Zoku=

Back 505

low/mass

Front 506

n
authorship in Senryu

Back 506

anonymous

Front 507

n
Kyoka is

Back 507

comic poetry

Front 508

n
Kyoka authorship

Back 508

signed

Front 509

n
Senryu is the

Back 509

voice of the common people

Front 510

n
Compared to Senryu, Kyoka has more

Back 510

awareness of tradition

Front 511

n
Senryu is even missing

Back 511

topics

Front 512

n
Man'yoshu age

Back 512

ancient

Front 513

n
Man'yoshu order

Back 513

chronological

Front 514

n
Man'yoshu contains 3

Back 514

exchanges
laments
other

Front 515

n
KKS age

Back 515

classical

Front 516

n
KKS tone includes

Back 516

war

Front 517

n
FGS age

Back 517

Late medieval

Front 518

n
KKS age

Back 518

Early medieval

Front 519

n
Shirakawa =

Back 519

far away

Front 520

n
Ancient Age=

Back 520

Nara pd

Front 521

n
Classical Age=

Back 521

Heian pd

Front 522

n
Early Medieval=

Back 522

Kamakura pd

Front 523

n
Late Medieval

Back 523

Muromachi pd

Front 524

n
Early Modern

Back 524

Edo Pd

Front 525

x
only the pagoda
can be seen with To Temple
in its summer grove.

Back 525

Issa

Front 526

x
Steam from broth
rises above a wattle fence,
with sleet coming down

Back 526

issa

Front 527

x
Even sparrow's mouths
are agape in the plum trees--
hailing Amida

Back 527

Issa

Front 528

x
Garden butterfly:
baby crawls up, it flies off--
crawls up, it flies off

Back 528

Issa

Front 529

x
Along they go
chasing a bumbling thief
out of town

Back 529

Issa

Front 530

x
What frustration:
even the wild geese call freely
to one another!

Back 530

Issa

Front 531

x
The moon, the blossoms
forty-nine year I've wasted
walking beneath them

Back 531

Issa

Front 532

x
Autumn night
a hole in my paper door
whistling away

Back 532

Issa

Front 533

x
Snow starts melting
and the village overflows
with children

Back 533

Issa

Front 534

x
Lightning flashes,
throwing light on those who cringe
at the thought of death

Back 534

Issa

Front 535

x
Hold on! Don't hit him!
that fly praying with his hands
praying with his feet

Back 535

Issa

Front 536

x
Distant mountains are reflected in the eye of a dragonfly

Back 536

Issa

Front 537

x
issa is the champion

Back 537

of little things

Front 538

x
Ah, what a pleasure
to cross a stream in summer
sandals in hand

Back 538

Buson

Front 539

x
They've separated, but she tramples her pride
at rice planting time

Back 539

Buson

Front 540

x
A bat flits by
and the wife from across the street
takes a look my way

Back 540

Buson

Front 541

x
Fuji all alone
the one thing left unburied
by new green leaves

Back 541

Buson

Front 542

x
A boat left abandoned, tied up by the back gate.
Standing on one foot,
a crane is falling asleep when comes
a gust of wind

Back 542

Buson

Front 543

x
Ah, what coolness-
echoing out from the bell,
the sound of the bell

Back 543

Buson

Front 544

x
Ah, it cuts deep
to step on my dead wife's comb, here where we slept

Back 544

Buson

Front 545

x
There's no loincloth
on that butt blown into view
in the spring breeze

Back 545

Buson

Front 546

x
At the house next door
he's still talking away
an oil seller
three feet now on the ground
in the snowy twilight

Back 546

Buson

Front 547

x
Here are Saigyo's
bedclothes laid out for the night
crimson leaves

Back 547

Buson

Front 548

x
At that old pond
the frog is growing old now
among fallen leaves

Back 548

Buson

Front 549

x
Basho left us,
and since then never has the year
come to such an end

Back 549

Buson

Front 550

x
Bored with the whole affair...

Back 550

Senryu

Front 551

x
packing tobacco

Back 551

Senryu

Front 552

x
pee during ablutions

Back 552

Senryu

Front 553

x
new bride morning after

Back 553

a Senryu