{"collection":"Shinto Documents","page":1,"pages":[{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_kwaidan_kwai11_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_kwaidan_kwai11_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"This is a Japanese ghost story in the kaidan tradition, likely from Lafcadio Hearn's collection of Japanese folk tales. It follows O-Sono, a merchant's daughter from Tamba province who dies young, then returns as a transparent apparition each night to hover before her chest of drawers, unsettling the household. A Zen Buddhist priest named Daigen Osho investigates, and through methodical searching discovers a love letter hidden beneath the drawer lining \u2014 correspondence from O-Sono's student days in Kyoto, predating her marriage. The priest burns the letter unread (save by himself), the ghost departs in peace, and the secret dies with him. The story is distinctive for its restrained, melancholy tone: the ghost is not malevolent but anxious, her haunting driven by the very human wish to erase an intimate secret before it can harm her reputation or her family. The ending's quiet moral \u2014 that the priest's discretion is as essential as the burning itself \u2014 gives the tale an elegiac quality about privacy, loyalty, and what the dead cannot protect on their own.","title":"A Dead Secret","word_count":884},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_index_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| | A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu) translated by William N. Porter [1909] | \nThis is a collection of 100 specimens of Japanese Tanka poetry collected in the 13th Century C.E., with some of the poems dating back to the 7th Centry. Tanka is a 31 syllable format in the pattern 5-7-5-7-7.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu) Index","word_count":211},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj002_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj002_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"OUT in the fields this autumn day\n \u00a0\u00a0They're busy reaping grain ;\n I sought for shelter \u2019neath this roof,\n \u00a0\u00a0But fear I sought in vain,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0My sleeve is wet with rain. The Emperor Tenchi reigned from A.D. 668 to 671, his capital was Otsu, not far from Ky\u014dto, and he is chiefly remembered for his kindness and benevolence.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 1. ...","word_count":151},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj011_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj011_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE stranger who has travelled far,\n \u00a0\u00a0The friend with welcome smile,\n All sorts of men who come and go\n \u00a0\u00a0Meet at this mountain stile,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0They meet and rest awhile. Semi Marti is said to have been the son of the Emperor Uda, who reigned A.D. 888-897.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 10. Semi Maru","word_count":156},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj101_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj101_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"MY ancient Palace I regret,\n \u00a0\u00a0Though rot attacks the eaves,\n And o'er the roof the creeping vine\n \u00a0\u00a0Spreads out and interweaves\n \u00a0\u00a0Unpruned its straggling leaves. This writer was the third son of the Emperor Gotoba, author of the previous verse (99); he reigned A.D. 1211-1221, and was deposed like his father, and banished to the Island of Sado.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 100...","word_count":161},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj013_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj013_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"OH stormy winds, bring up the clouds,\n \u00a0\u00a0And paint the heavens grey;\n Lest these fair maids of form divine\n \u00a0\u00a0Should angel wings display,\n \u00a0\u00a0And fly far\u00a0far away. The poet's real name was Munesada Yoshimune, and he was the great-grandson of the Emperor Kwammu. On the death of the Emperor Nimmy\u014d, to whom he was much devoted (A.D.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 12....","word_count":212},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj014_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj014_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE Mina stream comes tumbling down\n \u00a0\u00a0From Mount Tsukuba's height;\n Strong as my love, it leaps into\n \u00a0\u00a0A pool as black as night\n \u00a0\u00a0With overwhelming might. It was a frequent custom in the old days for the Emperors of Japan to retire into the church or private life, when circumstances demanded it. The Emperor Y\u014dzei, who was only nine years of age when he came to the throne, went out of his mind, and was forced by Mototsune Fujiwara to retire; he reigned A.D.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 13. The Retired Emperor Y\u014dzei: Y\u014dzei In","word_count":168},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj015_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj015_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"AH! why does love distract my thoughts,\n \u00a0\u00a0Disordering my will! I'm like the pattern on the cloth\n \u00a0\u00a0Of Michinoku hill,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0All in confusion still.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 14. The Minister-of-the-Left of the Kawara (District of Ky\u014dto): Kawara no Sadaijin","word_count":196},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj016_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj016_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"MOTHER, for thy sake I have been\n \u00a0\u00a0Where the wakana grow,\n To bring thee back some fresh green leaves\n \u00a0\u00a0And see\u2014my koromo\n \u00a0\u00a0Is sprinkled with the snow! Kw\u014dk\u014d was raised to the throne by the Fujiwara family, when the mad Emperor Y\u014dzei was deposed; he reigned A.D. 885-887, and is said to have composed this verse in honour of his grandmother.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 15. The Emperor Kw\u014dk\u014d: Kw\u014dk\u014d Tenn\u014d","word_count":122},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj017_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj017_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"IF breezes on Inaba's peak\n \u00a0\u00a0Sigh through the old pine tree,\n To whisper in my lonely ears\n \u00a0\u00a0That thou dost pine for me,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0Swiftly I'll fly to thee. Yuki-hira was the Governor of the Province of Inaba, and half-brother of the writer of the next verse (17); he died in the year 893, aged 75. The word matsu in the original may mean 'a pine tree', but it may also mean 'waiting and longing for'.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 16. The Imperial Adviser Yuki-hira Ariwara: Ch\u016b-Nagon Ariwara no Yuki-hira","word_count":141},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj018_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj018_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"ALL red with leaves Tatsuta's stream\n \u00a0\u00a0So softly purls along,\n The everlasting Gods themselves,\n \u00a0\u00a0Who judge 'twixt right and wrong,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ne'er heard so sweet a song. The writer, who lived A.D. 825-880, was the grandson of the Emperor Saga, and was the Don Juan of Old Japan; he was banished because of an intrigue he had with the Empress, and his adventures are fully related in the Ise-Monogatari.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 17....","word_count":176},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj019_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj019_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"TO-NIGHT on Sumi-no-ye beach\n \u00a0\u00a0The waves alone draw near;\n And, as we wander by the cliffs,\n \u00a0\u00a0No prying eyes shall peer,\n \u00a0\u00a0No one shall dream we're here. Toshi-yuki, who lived A.D. 880-907, was an officer of the Imperial Guard, and a member of the great and influential Fujiwara family.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 18. The Minister Toshi-yuki Fujiwara: Fujiwara No Toshi-yuki Ason","word_count":161},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj020_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj020_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"SHORT as the joints of bamboo reeds\n \u00a0\u00a0That grow beside the sea\n On pebble beach at Naniwa,\n \u00a0\u00a0I hope the time may be,\n \u00a0\u00a0When thou \u2019rt away from me. The Princess Ise was the daughter of Tsugukage Fujiwara, the Governor of the Province of Ise; hence her name. She lived at the Imperial Court, and was the favourite maid of honour of the Emperor Uda, who reigned A.D.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 19....","word_count":125},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj003_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj003_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE spring has gone, the summer's come,\n \u00a0\u00a0And I can just descry\n The peak of Ama-no-kagu,\n \u00a0\u00a0Where angels of the sky\n \u00a0\u00a0Spread their white robes to dry. The Empress Jit\u014d reigned A.D. 690-696, during which time sak\u00e9 was first made and drunk in Japan; she was the daughter of the Emperor Tenchi, the writer of the previous verse, and she married the Emperor Temmu, ascending the throne herself on his death.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 2. ...","word_count":219},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj021_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj021_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"WE met but for a moment, and\n \u00a0\u00a0I'm wretched as before;\n The tide shall measure out my life,\n \u00a0\u00a0Unless I see once more\n \u00a0\u00a0The maid, whom I adore. The composer of this verse was the son of the Emperor Y\u014dzei, who reigned A.D. 877-884; he was noted for his love-affairs, and he died in the year 943.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 20. The Heir-Apparent Moto-yoshi: Moto-yoshi Shinn\u014d","word_count":189},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj022_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj022_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE moon that shone the whole night through\n \u00a0\u00a0This autumn morn I see,\n As here I wait thy well-known step,\n \u00a0\u00a0For thou didst promise me\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0'I'll surely come to thee.'\nSosei is supposed to have been the son of Bishop Henj\u014d, the writer of verse No. 12, born before the latter entered the church, about the year 850. His name as a layman was Hiro-nobu Yoshi-mine, and he became abbot of the Monastery of Riyau-inwin at Isono-kami, in the Province of Yamato.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 21. The Priest Sosei: Sosei H\u014dshi","word_count":96},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj023_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj023_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE mountain wind in autumn time\n \u00a0\u00a0Is well called 'hurricane';\n It hurries canes and twigs along,\n \u00a0\u00a0And whirls them o'er the plain\n \u00a0\u00a0To scatter them again. This well-known writer lived in the ninth century, and was the father of Asayasu, who composed verse No. 37; he was also Vice-Director of the Imperial Bureau of Fabrics.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 22. Yasuhide Bunya: Bunya No Yasuhide","word_count":129},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj024_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj024_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THIS night the cheerless autumn moon\n \u00a0\u00a0Doth all my mind enthrall;\n But others also have their griefs,\n \u00a0\u00a0For autumn on us all\n \u00a0\u00a0Hath cast her gloomy pall. Chisato \u014cye is said to have lived about the end of the ninth century; he was the son of a Councillor, and a very fertile poet. He was also famous as a philosopher, and acted as tutor to the Emperor Sei-wa, who reigned A.D.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 23....","word_count":86},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj025_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj025_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I BRING no prayers on coloured silk\n \u00a0\u00a0To deck thy shrine to-day,\n But take instead these maple leaves,\n \u00a0\u00a0That grow at Tamuk\u00e9;\n \u00a0\u00a0Finer than silk are they. The name given above means 'A house of rushes' but the poet's real name was Michizane Sugawara; he was a great minister in the Emperor Uda's reign and a learned scholar; his works comprise twelve books of poetry and two hundred volumes of history; he was degraded in A.D. 901, and died two years later, an exile in Kinsh\u016b, aged fifty-nine.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 24....","word_count":194},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj026_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj026_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"HEAR thou art as modest as\n \u00a0\u00a0The little creeping spray\n Upon Mount \u014csaka, which hides\n \u00a0\u00a0Beneath the grass; then, pray,\n \u00a0\u00a0Wander with me to-day. The writer's real name was Sadakata Fujiwara, and he died A.D. 932.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 25. The Minister-of-the-Right of the Sanj\u014d (District of Ky\u014dto): Sanj\u014d Udaijin","word_count":111},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj027_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj027_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE maples of Mount Ogura,\n \u00a0\u00a0If they could understand,\n Would keep their brilliant leaves, until\n \u00a0\u00a0The Ruler of this land\n \u00a0\u00a0Pass with his royal band. The above is the posthumous name given to Tadahira Fujiwara, Imperial Chief Minister of State; he died about the year 936. It is related that the Emperor Uda, after his abdication, visited Mount Ogura in Yamashiro province, and was so greatly struck with the autumn tints of the maples, that he ordered Tada-hira to invite his son, the Emperor\u2026","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 26....","word_count":123},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj028_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj028_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"OH! rippling River Izumi,\n \u00a0\u00a0That flows through Mika plain,\n Why should the maid I saw but now\n \u00a0\u00a0And soon shall see again\n \u00a0\u00a0Torment my love-sick brain? Kanesuke was a member of the Fujiwara family; he died in the year 933.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 27....","word_count":124},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj029_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj029_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE mountain village solitude\n \u00a0\u00a0In winter time I dread;\n It seems as if, when friends are gone,\n \u00a0\u00a0And trees their leaves have shed,\n \u00a0\u00a0All men and plants are dead. The poet was a grandson of the Emperor Kw\u014dk\u014d, and died A.D. 940.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 28. The Minister Mune-yuki Minamoto: Minamoto no Mune-yuki Ason","word_count":164},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj030_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj030_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"IT was a white chrysanthemum\n \u00a0\u00a0I came to take away;\n But, which are coloured, which are white,\n \u00a0\u00a0I'm half afraid to say,\n \u00a0\u00a0So thick the frost to-day! Mitsune lived some time in the beginning of the tenth century, and was one of the compilers of Odes Ancient and Modern (the Kokinshiu). The illustration shows him with a boy in attendance, trying to make up his mind which flower he will pick.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 29. Mitsune \u014cshi-k\u014dchi: \u014cshi-k\u014dchi No Mitsune","word_count":85},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj004_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj004_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"LONG is the mountain pheasant's tail\n \u00a0\u00a0That curves down in its flight;\n But longer still, it seems to me,\n \u00a0\u00a0Left in my lonely plight,\n \u00a0\u00a0Is this unending night. The writer was a foundling, picked up and adopted by Abaye at the foot of a persimmon tree, which is in Japanese kaki, from which he got his name. He was an attendant on the Emperor Mommu, who reigned A.D.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 3. The Nobleman Kaki-no-Moto: Kaki-no-Moto no Hitomaro","word_count":215},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj031_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj031_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I HATE the cold unfriendly moon,\n \u00a0\u00a0That shines at early morn;\n And nothing seems so sad and grey,\n \u00a0\u00a0When I am left forlorn,\n \u00a0\u00a0As day's returning dawn. The writer lived to the age of ninety-nine, and died in the year 965. He was, like the composer of the previous verse, one of the compilers of the Kokinshiu, and was also the father of the author of verse No.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 30....","word_count":104},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj032_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj032_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"SURELY the morning moon, I thought,\n \u00a0\u00a0Has bathed the hill in light\n But, no; I see it is the snow\n \u00a0\u00a0That, falling in the night,\n \u00a0\u00a0Has made Yoshino white. Little is known about this poet, but he is said to have lived some time in the tenth century. Yoshino is a mountain village in the Province of Yamato, famous for its cherry blossoms; at one time it contained the Imperial Summer Palace.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 31. Korenori Saka-no-Uye: Saka-no-Uye no Korenori","word_count":105},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj033_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj033_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE stormy winds of yesterday\n \u00a0\u00a0The maple branches shook;\n And see! a mass of crimson leaves\n \u00a0\u00a0Has lodged within that nook,\n \u00a0\u00a0And choked the mountain brook. The writer of this verse died in the year 864.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 32....","word_count":50},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj034_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj034_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE spring has come, and once again\n \u00a0\u00a0The sun shines in the sky;\n So gently smile the heavens, that\n \u00a0\u00a0It almost makes me cry,\n \u00a0\u00a0When blossoms droop and die. Tomonori Kino was the grandson of Uchisukune Take, a famous warrior, and nephew of Tsura-yuki, who composed verse No. 35; he was one of the compilers of the Kokinshiu, and died at the beginning of the tenth century.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 33. Tomonori Kino: Kino Tomonori","word_count":147},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj035_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj035_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"GONE are my old familiar friends,\n \u00a0\u00a0The men I used to know;\n Yet still on Takasago beach\n \u00a0\u00a0The same old pine trees-grow,\n \u00a0\u00a0That I knew long ago. Oki-kaze, the son of Michinari, was an official in the Province of Sagami in the year 911; the date of his death is unknown, but he is mentioned as being alive as late as the year 914. Takasago, which is mentioned again in verse No.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 34. Oki-kaze Fujiwara: Fujiwara No Oki-kaze","word_count":129},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj036_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj036_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE village of my youth is gone,\n \u00a0\u00a0New faces meet my gaze;\n But still the blossoms at thy gate,\n \u00a0\u00a0Whose perfume scents the ways,\n \u00a0\u00a0Recall my childhood's days. The writer of this verse, who lived A.D. 884-946, was a nobleman at Court, one of the greatest of the classical poets, and the first writer of Japanese prose.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 35. Tsura-yuki Kino: Kino Tsura-yuki","word_count":173},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj037_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj037_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Too short the lovely summer night,\n \u00a0\u00a0Too soon \u2019tis passed away;\n I watched to see behind which cloud\n \u00a0\u00a0The moon would chance to stay,\n \u00a0\u00a0And here's the dawn of day! Nothing is known of this writer, except that he was the father of the author of verse No. 42.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 36. Fuka-yabu Kiyowara: Kiyowara no Fuka-yabu","word_count":63},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj038_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj038_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THIS lovely morn the dewdrops flash\n \u00a0\u00a0Like diamonds on the grass\u2014\n A blaze of sparkling jewels! But\n \u00a0\u00a0The autumn wind, alas! Scatters them as I pass.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 37. Asayasu Bunya: Bunya no Asayasu","word_count":108},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj039_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj039_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"MY broken heart I don't lament,\n \u00a0\u00a0To destiny I bow;\n But thou hast broken solemn oaths,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0I pray the Gods may now\n \u00a0\u00a0Absolve thee from thy vow. The Lady Ukon is supposed to have been deserted by her husband, and in this poem she regrets, not so much her own sorrow, as the fact that he has broken his sworn oath, and is therefore in danger of divine vengeance. The illustration shows her all alone at the gate, with the house in the background, evidently waiting for the husband who has forsaken\u2026","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 38. Ukon","word_count":107},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj040_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj040_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\u2019TIS easier to hide the reeds\n \u00a0\u00a0Upon the moor that grow,\n Than try to hide the ardent love\n \u00a0\u00a0That sets my cheeks aglow\n \u00a0\u00a0For somebody I know. Little is known of this poet, except that he lived some time in the tenth century. Note the word shinowara, meaning 'a bamboo moor', contrasted with shinohuredo in the next line, which means 'though I might manage to conceal'.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 39....","word_count":95},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj005_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj005_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I STARTED off along the shore,\n \u00a0\u00a0The sea shore at Tago,\n And saw the white and glist\u2019ning peak\n \u00a0\u00a0Of Fuji all aglow\n \u00a0\u00a0Through falling flakes of snow. Akahito Yamabe lived about A.D. 700, and was one of the greatest of the early poets; he was contemporary with Kaki-no-Moto, the writer of the previous verse, and like him was deified as a God of Poetry.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 4. ...","word_count":96},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj041_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj041_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"ALAS! the blush upon my cheek,\n \u00a0\u00a0Conceal it as I may,\n Proclaims to all that I'm in love,\n \u00a0\u00a0Till people smile and say\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0'Where are thy thoughts to-day?'\nThis verse is said to have been composed in the year 949, at the request of the Emperor Daigo. The Taira family sprang from the Emperor Kwammu, attained great influence three hundred years later, but finally fell before the power of the Minamoto clan in the year 1185 (see note to verse No.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 40. Kanemori Taira: Taira no Kanemori","word_count":96},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj042_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj042_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"OUR courtship, that we tried to hide,\n \u00a0\u00a0Misleading is to none;\n And yet how could the neighbours guess,\n \u00a0\u00a0That I had yet begun\n \u00a0\u00a0To fancy any one? This poet was the son of the writer of verse No. 30, and he is said to have composed the poem on the same occasion as is mentioned for No.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 41....","word_count":110},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj043_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj043_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"OUR sleeves, all wet with tears, attest\n \u00a0\u00a0That you and I agree\n That to each other we'll be true,\n \u00a0\u00a0Till Pine-tree Hill shall be\n \u00a0\u00a0Sunk far beneath the sea. Moto-suke lived towards the close of the tenth century, and was the son of the writer of verse No. 36.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 42....","word_count":117},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj044_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj044_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"HOW desolate my former life,\n \u00a0\u00a0Those dismal years, ere yet\n I chanced to see thee face to face\n \u00a0\u00a0\u2019Twere better to forget\n \u00a0\u00a0Those days before we met. Yatsu-tada was a member of the great Fujiwara family, and is said to have died in the year 943,\nIt is interesting to note in these illustrations, as in nearly all old Japanese pictures, that the artist either takes off the roof of the house or removes part of the wall when he wishes you to see what is going on indoors.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 43....","word_count":103},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj045_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj045_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"TO fall in love with womankind\n \u00a0\u00a0Is my unlucky fate;\n If only it were otherwise,\n \u00a0\u00a0I might appreciate\n \u00a0\u00a0Some men, whom now I hate. The writer of this verse was the son of Sadakata, a Minister-of-the-Right, and is said to have died in the year 961. The verse was composed at the instance of the Emperor Daigo, and is apparently written in praise of a life of single blessedness.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 44. The Imperial Adviser Asa-tada: Ch\u016b-Nagon Asa-tada","word_count":124},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj046_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj046_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I DARE not hope my lady-love\n \u00a0\u00a0Will smile on me again;\n She knows no Pity, and my life\n \u00a0\u00a0I care not to retain,\n \u00a0\u00a0Since all my prayers are vain. The real name of the writer of this verse was Koretada Fujiwara; he died in the year 972, and Prince Ken-toku is his posthumous name. Aware to mo means, in conjunction with the next line, 'that she would give me words of pity'; but aware tomo can also mean 'to meet as a friend.'\nIn spite of the Prince's fears, the illustration seems to suggest that\u2026","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 45....","word_count":121},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj047_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj047_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE fishing-boats are tossed about,\n \u00a0\u00a0When stormy winds blow strong;\n With rudder lost, how can they reach\n \u00a0\u00a0The port for which they long? So runs the old love-song. Nothing is known of the writer of this verse, but he is said to have lived in.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 46. The Priest Ne-yoshi-tada: S\u014d Ne-yoshi-tada","word_count":108},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj048_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj048_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"MY little temple stands alone,\n \u00a0\u00a0No other hut is near;\n No one will pass to stop and praise\n \u00a0\u00a0Its vine-grown roof, I fear,\n \u00a0\u00a0Now that the autumn's here. The Priest Ye-kei lived about the end of the tenth century, but nothing is known about him. In the picture he is shown outside his humble little temple with its patched roof and the vine growing up the wall.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 47. The Priest Ye-kei: Ye-kei H\u014dshi","word_count":81},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj049_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj049_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE waves that dash against the rocks\n \u00a0\u00a0Are broken by the wind\n And turned to spray; my loving heart\n \u00a0\u00a0Is broken too, I find,\n \u00a0\u00a0Since thou art so unkind. The writer of this verse is said to have died in the year 963; for a note about the great Minamoto family, see verse No. 28.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 48....","word_count":94},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj050_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj050_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"MY constancy to her I love\n \u00a0\u00a0I never will forsake;\n As surely as the Palace Guards\n \u00a0\u00a0Each night their watch-fire make\n \u00a0\u00a0And guard it till daybreak. The author was the son of the Minister Yorimoto, and he lived during the latter part of the tenth century. The illustration shows the watchman outside the Palace tending his fire.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 49. The Minister Yoshi-nobu, of Priestly Rank: \u014cnakatomi no Yoshi-nobu Ason","word_count":71},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj006_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj006_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"HEAR the stag's pathetic call\n \u00a0\u00a0Far up the mountain side,\n While tramping o'er the maple leaves\n \u00a0\u00a0Wind-scattered far and wide\n \u00a0\u00a0This sad, sad autumn tide. Very little is known of this writer, but he probably lived not later than A.D. 800.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 5. ...","word_count":69},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj051_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj051_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"DEATH had no terrors, Life no joys,\n \u00a0\u00a0Before I met with thee;\n But now I fear, however long\n \u00a0\u00a0My life may chance to be,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u2019Twill be too short for me! Yoshitaka died in the year 974. See verse No.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 50....","word_count":61},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj052_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj052_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THOUGH love, like blisters made from leaves\n \u00a0\u00a0Grown on Mount Ibuki,\n Torments me more than I can say,\n \u00a0\u00a0My lady shall not see,\n \u00a0\u00a0How she is paining me. The writer lived some time at the close of the tenth century. The artemisia plant (or mugwort) is used in Japan for cauterizing; a conical wad of the leaves or blossoms is placed on the spot, lit at the top, and allowed to burn down to the skin; this produces a blister, and is extremely painful.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 51. The Minister Sanekata Fujiwara: Fujiwara no Sanekata Ason","word_count":207},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj053_htm","collection":"Shinto Documents","id":"sacred_texts_v1_shi_hvj_hvj053_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"ALTHOUGH I know the gentle night\n \u00a0\u00a0Will surely follow morn,\n Yet, when I'm wakened by the sun,\n \u00a0\u00a0Turn over, stretch and yawn\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0How I detest the dawn! Michi-nobu lived in the tenth century. He is shown in the illustration with his wife on the verandah, watching the day break.","title":"A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-isshu): 52. The Minister Michi-nobu Fujiwara: Fujiwara no Michi-nobu Ason","word_count":63}],"sort":"title","tag":null,"total":628}