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Resources => Poetry [Public] => Topic started by: Nichi on September 27, 2009, 10:38:28 PM
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Yielding to a love
That knows no limit,
I shall go to him by night --
For the world does not yet censure
Those who tread the paths of dreams.
Ono no Komachi
9th Century Japan
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Since this body
was forgotten
by the one who promised to come,
my only thought is wondering
whether it even exists.
Ono no Komachi
9th Century Japan
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Did he appear,
because I fell asleep
thinking of him?
If only I'd known I was dreaming
I'd never have wakened.
O.n.K.
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When longing for him
Tortures me beyond endurance,
I reverse my robe --
Garb of night, black as leopard-flower berries --
And wear it inside out.
O.n.K.
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Since encountering my beloved
While I dozed,
I have begun to feel
That it is dreams, not reality,
On which I can rely.
O.n.K
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The above are Japanese Tankas.
"Tanka" means "short poem" or "short song", consisting of 31 Japanese syllables. They are usually divided into syllabic units of 5-7-5-7-7.
The notion of "yugen" became one of the key elements in tanka poetry. "Yugen" is a subtle and profound atmosphere. It is also an infinite, tranquil space with lingering suggestiveness -- avoiding detailed descriptions.
See the Transcript at
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=39&EventId=483
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In waking hours
natural, perhaps,
but even in dreams---
how miserable, to be forever hiding
from the eyes of others
O.n.K.
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Submit to you---
could that be what you are saying?
the way ripples on the water
submit to an idling wind?
O.n.K.
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Sad---the end that waits me---
to think at last
I'll be a mere haze
pale green over the fields
O.n.K.
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(http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/img/yt/oldwoman70_50.jpg)
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These are really good V.
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a beautiful old woman
so sensitive poetry
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(http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/img/yt/oldwoman70_50.jpg)
Don't know where you found this, but I just been to this person's site (got it from the link address of the pic) and it has such a lot of Japanese stuff - some of it really beautiful.
here's the link:
http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/
check the snow series
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Don't know where you found this, but I just been to this person's site (got it from the link address of the pic) and it has such a lot of Japanese stuff - some of it really beautiful.
here's the link:
http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/
check the snow series
Ahhh! Thanks for pointing it out -- all kinds of goodies in there!
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(Something else wild -- he lives in Tidewater - my area - somewhere.)
http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/nontech/isabel.html
Huh? That is pretty trippy. :o
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The autumn night
is long only in name --
We've done no more
than gaze at each other
and it's already dawn.
O.n.K.
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Nothing is known about Ono no Komachi except that she belonged to a literary family, was perhaps an attendant to Emperor Nimmei (d.850), and exchanged poems with some of the major male poets of the mid-800s. Kokinshu/Kokin wakashu, an imperial anthology completed about 922, contains 18 of her poems; others appeared in later anthologies. A 1000's collection of her poetry, Komachi shu, includes 116 poems; it's not clear if all of the attributions are accurate.
Within a hundred years of her death Komachi had become the stuff of legend (see online): most of the stories about her appear to have been based on her poems, which are about love and the melancholy that it involves. But the reputation of her poems was such that she was later named as one of Japan's "Six Immortals of Poetry."
http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/ono.html
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(https://eee.uci.edu/clients/sbklein/images/NOH/komachi/images/01komachi-print.jpg)
(http://www.kuniyoshiproject.com/The%20Hundred%20Poets%20I_files/image013.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onono.jpg)
(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onono1.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onono3.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onono6.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onono7.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onono8.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onono10.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onono11.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onoandsojohenjo9th.jpg)
The poet Sojo Henjo slips a note into her pocket.
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Gorgeous Vicki - thanks for finding these.
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onono14.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onono15.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onono16.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onono18.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onono20.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc53/onono22.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc54/ononok.jpg)
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(http://buriedshiva.com.au/vicky/misc54/onono23.jpg)
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beautiful
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"This body
grown fragile, floating,
a reed cut from its roots . . .
If a stream would ask me
to follow, I'd go, I think."
~Ono no Komachi (825-ca.900)
Source: The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu,
trans. by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani, 2006]
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The poetess Ono no Komachi in the Autumn of her Life by Kyosai
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Agitated
like the wings of the snipe
at dawn, beating and beating,
on the night you do not come,
endlessly beating.
Ono no Komachi
According to one of the Komachi stories, the poet Ono no Komachi promised to meet her ardent suitor Fukakusa Shōjō if he agreed to spend a hundred nights on the stepstool of an oxcart. After ninety-nine nights, he died.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/56050?rpp=30&pg=1&ft=Ono+no+Komachi&pos=2