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Today we’re drawing from Chapter [insert number] of the Tale of Genji.
Sources:
Poem from Seidensticker’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
‘If they should ask about us, O Know-Nothing River, Be true to your name and merely say: “I wonder”’
Poem from Washburn’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
Do not give my identity away, but instead if asked think of the Isaya River at Mount Toko in Inugami and reply, Isa...I do not know”
Poem from Kokinshu: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern translated by Laurel Rasplica Rodd
Name-taking River
of Tokonoko Mountain in
Inukami please
Answer that you do not know
Do not let my name leak out
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