3 May 2013

larryhammer: drawing of a wildhaired figure dancing, label: "La!" (La!)
Possibly inappropriate responses to 1100-year-old poems: When a female singer/entertainer seeing off a male friend traveling to Kyushu* for a hot-spring cure writes (in Kokinshu #387):


inochi dani
kokoro ni kanau
mono naraba
nani ka wakare no
kanashikaramashi

    If only our lifespans
somehow corresponded to
    our hearts' desires,
would separation still be
something so agonizing?


I want to tell her to ask the elves about what farewells are like when you're immortal. Go ahead, ask them. I dare you.


* An arduous journey that suggests he was doing it for health reasons -- and was in serious condition.


---L.

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