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Passionate Love, Like River’s Flow

The most passionate love poem in Hyakunin Isshu

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Ancient Japanese poets weren’t shy and quite good at expressing their passionate love in varieties of ways. Out of 100 poems in Hyakunin Isshu 百人一首, as many as 43 sing about love.

And out of those 43 love poems, which one is the most passionate? I would pick the one below.

What does an ancient love poem have to do with the river’s flow, you may wonder…

77/10 崇徳院 - Sutokuin

瀬を早み岩にせかるる滝川の われても末に逢はむとぞ思ふ

THE rock divides the stream in two, And both with might and main Go tumbling down the waterfall; But well I know the twain Will soon unite again.

Quite an appropriate poem of the river’s flow on this Valentine’s Day, isn’t it?

Source: A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (The Hyakunin-Isshu) translated by William N. Porter (1909) — Sacred Texts

The second one about the weekly nature prompt. Sorry, Sahil Patel.

Marta Henriques’s article resonates with me.

Thank you, Hermione Wilds Writes, for sharing a wonderful art!

Originally published at https://akemisagawa.com on February 14, 2023.

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