Latest newsletter: Yugao
June 28, 2017Here is a Tanka, compiled in The Tale of Genji, in "Yugao",
chapter four:
"Kokoro ateni Sorekatozo miru Shiratsuyuno Hikari soetaru
Yugao no hana"
Interpretation: I am wondering if it was you. He was such a
beautiful man like glistening dew admired by a flower of bottle gourd.
Yugao here is a woman that is having an unfortunate life, who was
visited very often by Hikaru GENJI even though they could only see
each other for little time. Yugao wrote the above tanka on a fan
which presented to GENJI with flower when she happened to notice
him looking at a bottle guard flower in a hedge by her house.
A bright and lovely woman, Yugao was soon to be haunted by GENJI's
girlfriend called Rokujo no MIYASUNDOKORO and then she died
fleetingly like bottle gourd flower withers.
Read the full article:
Evening glory?!: Yugao (a flower of a bottle gourd)
Translation by: Hitomi Kochi, reviewed by Chan Yee Ting
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