Did someone order a horrendously down bad poem from Felwinter's pov? No? Yes you did :))) I think you may need to sit down for this one
(also I am currently reading The Tale of Genji, which has many a beautiful love poem in it—and I couldn't resist adding a line from my favourite in here <3)
the softened edge
Snow drives down and settles, soft
On the sharp mountain stone
But remember, when sent on a knife-wind
these jaunty, fluttering flakes
may cut you to the bone.
One ought to see:
how these melting flurries die
how they wax and wane
how they will return to the sea
and the bitter winter sky.
I'll now put aside my pen, love.
Ah, how boundless, how clear is the air
that surrounds us at the top of the world?
All that drifts through it are whisps of cloud and birds.
I put aside my pen to share, and make sense of,
Your burning boundlessness of mind
The clearness of your eye,
Because I cannot capture you in rhythmic verse alone.
Your soul abounds. It spreads its wings and soars.
Each feather of that bird must be but a multitude of thoughts in your clever head
Each cry from that beak a mere whisper from your eternal mouth
And those whisps of vapour, surely, that must be me.
I cannot put aside my pen until I have you written in the stars, love.
I sit, I watch you,
Holding my book for cover,
And you do not notice, engrossed in your mind as you are.
I keep my pen in my hand, distraction,
twilight glinting off its metal nib through the window
And you hold your own, filled with twilight ink,
your fingers stained with it,
your own book smudged with it.
I hold my book as cover for my brazen eyes
and yet I see you there, reclining:
The fullness of your shoulders, the slope of your back,
you lay in the bed, the thinker, perfect.
The heart-stained sheets around your waist.
The orange pillow behind you, sagging slowly.
All I can see is the burnished sun setting beyond the snow-capped peaks.
There is not enough oxygen up here for me.
I cannot set aside my pen until the star charts show your form in constellation, but I am running out of ink.
I used it all to paint the fathomless depths of your eyes.
And while I was distracted you came close
and tried to warn of danger
But, perhaps, I think you are the true danger:
your hands are near.
Your fingers sink into fur
do you think it is snow?
Or do you somehow seek warmth?
You are so rash. You are the sun-bird.
I have little warmth to give, yet you persist,
and you are more dangerous than a snow bridge.
You are here, and proud of it, and I cannot set aside my pen.
We have spoken much. Recited ancient history,
performed ancient literature.
I should not know poetry.
And yet, I see a verse, and I am struck, when you are gone—
how I wish to see the little boat she of Ise rows
as you fly beyond the mountains without me.
I cannot bear not knowing when I shall see you again.
But back you paddle,
radiant, rising,
and I should not know poetry.
But you have given me a pen.
But, I suppose
the most human thing of all
is the attempt to write the knowledge
of seeing another's soul.
Aaaaaahh you actually did it!!! Yes, it was my order and I... indeed need to sit down... or better lay down actually...
Thank you so much for sharing, that's beautiful! 😭��� Maybe there's something wrong with me, but to me it doesn't sound down or sad, quite heartfelt, wholesome and full of love actually?? (says the person found curled on the floor in the pool of tears)
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Nobunaga rages in Kyoto over rulership of Ise Province
More interesting narrative from Crasset's book.
But some days after an unhappy and tragical Accident turned all this Joy into Mourning and Tears. For Nobunanga, who never play'd but a sure game, seeing all the Nobility of Japan Assembled together at Meaco, resolved to make use of this occasion, and gave out, that he intended: to invest one of his Children with the Kingdom of Ixe. The Lords of that Country, who had a kindness for their Prince, did not at all relish his Proposals as was expected, but seem'd quite averse to them, which put him into so outragious a passion, that he took Thirty of them and Beheaded them, without regard to farther Process, He also put to Death seven considerable Lords in the Kingdom of Xamaro. And tas'd their Houses on suspicion that they had not favour'd his Interest. These severities made him dreaded by all, and seeing he was pleased to favour the Chriſtians, none durst give the least disturbance for fear of incurring his displeasure.
(page 358 of Book 1)
This took place "some days after" the grand parade that Nobunaga put on in Kyoto in 1581. The Europeans were invited to the event, and they had a church in Kyoto besides, so if this incident happened in public they might have been direct eyewitnesses of it.
The Shinchoukouki naturally made no mention of such a thing happening, but that book is indeed one that is rather heavily "censored".
This is a curious incident, because Japanese accounting gave me the impression that Nobukatsu and Nobutaka already had taken over the headship of their respective adoptive families some years prior, and thus already share leadership of the province of Ise as of 1581.
Not to mention that, as I quoted in a previous post a section of the book, Nobutaka was introduced as "King of Ixe". That part comes before this part. This doesn't seem to make very much sense.
The first possibility was that this might have been narrated second hand, and the person writing this account somehow got the names in this incident muddled. Perhaps Nobunaga was actually talking about a completely different province.
I'm not certain what else was there to dispute about in Ise after the raid on the Kitabatake family, which had happened in 1576. After Nobukatsu assumed the headship of the family, Nobunaga ordered the purge of many of the Kitabatake family members for reasons that I'm not entirely clear of (there are many tales I saw, but no proper source). After that, by all accounts Ise was already under the control of Nobunaga's sons (Nobutaka supposedly took over the Kanbe family even earlier).
The other possibility is that what Nobunaga wanted was to restore the Oda surname to his sons, since at the time they were still using the names of their adoptive families, Kanbe and Kitabatake. Surnames are considered more important than bloodline, so the clans might have previously begrudgingly accepted Nobunaga's sons taking over the headship, because the names were at least still preserved. However, if they return to their Oda surname, the Kanbe and Kitabatake names would be lost, and the vassals would naturally object to it.
It still doesn't explain why Nobutaka was already "the King of Ise" when he was introduced, but maybe these are based on multiple texts that were not in proper chronological order.
What province was "Xamaro" supposed to be is a bit hard to parse, but my guess is that it's Yamato, based on how a Portuguese map had labelled Totomi as "Ioromi" (this makes me very much curious of how spoken Japanese sounds like circa the Sengoku). Yamato Province borders Ise, so it would be understandable that they might have also put forward objections and get caught in the fire.
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What is the Road finally to go?: Ariwarano Narihira's Farewell Song(Essay)
Ariwarano Narihira(在原業平)
@I've heard that it's the road to the day, but I don't think it was yesterday and today
This is recorded in Kokin Wakashu and The tale of Ise (125th stanza) as a poem of Ariwara no Narihira's death. I can't help but think that tomorrow will come as usual, but tomorrow won't come, and today, right here, my life will end. The picture shows Narihira somewhat lamenting.
When he was young, he was active in love, travel, and political activities. When it comes to the end of his life, he can't come up with any particularly good insight, and he only has the emotions of a commoner. He will be swallowed ... It is real around here.
Speaking of farewell poems, I have previously listed various people's farewell poems in my past logs. It's interesting to see things with momentum here and there.
@ Both the aggressor and the aggrieved are pottery, after being crushed, the original clay remains
Dosun Miura Muromachi military commander
It's filled with a kind of resignation.
@ If he falls me, I should pierce the cauldron of hell and cause a loss to the foolish demon of hell
Jurozaemon Mizuno Samurai of Edo "Kabukimono"
It's just the face of Picaresque.
At that time, I also made one.
@ If I look around as you divide the world, I will know the reason why I exist
...It's a pretty cool song, but when I'm on the brink of death, can I still be in this state? ...I'm not sure.
If death came to me suddenly and my blog was aborted, how would I give up? Of course, the fact that many stories have been uploaded means that my thoughts and sensibilities have generally been conveyed to the readers, and it can be said that the blog that I wrote until my death is complete. maybe. Mathematically, my blog is a "fractal". "A figure whose parts are equal to the whole"...the parts imply the whole, and the whole imply the parts.
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