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Today we’re drawing from Chapter 12 of the Tale of Genji and looking at poems that mention clothing.
Sources:
Poems from Royall Tyler’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
“Time once more would join them”
“As the undersash goes two ways to come round and join again, so I long for time again to join us” (Kokinshu 405 by Ki no Tomonori)
“Narrow they may be, these sleeves of mine that welcome the face of the moon,
Yet I so long to detain the light I shall always love!”
“Here is the robe he so graciously gave me...”
“Bitterness alone: no, that is by no means all I feel in my heart,
for the left sleeve and the right, both, are wet at once with tears.”
Poems from Seidensticker’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
“...somehow, someday, by some route they would come together again”
“I still have with me the robe which my lord gave me.”
Footnote: “Sugawara Michizane, ‘The Tenth of the Ninth Month,” in Last Poems (Kanke Koso).
“Not bitter thoughts alone does this singlet bring.
Its sleeves are damp with tears of affection too.”
Poems from Washburn’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
“I know that we shall circle round and meet again”
“Though our paths must diverge, I know that, like the ends of an obi, we shall circle round and meet again.” (Kokinshu 405 by Ki no Tomonori)
“The robe bestowed on me by the Emperor is now with me here”
“My sleeves both right and left are wet with tears
Tears of bitter resentment on the one
Tears of longing for you on the other”
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