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Japanese
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- よみ人しらず 題しらず (yomibito shirazu, dai shirazu, ”Anonymous, topic unknown”)
- 春霞たてるやいづこみよしののよしのの山に雪はふりつつ
- haru kasumi tateru ya izuko mi-Yoshino no Yoshino-no-yama ni yuki wa furitsutsu
- Where are the promised mists of spring? In Yoshino, fair hills of Yoshino, snow falling still.[1]
- 千里 題しらず (Chisato, dai shirazu, ”by Chisato, topic unknown”)
- 白雪の友にわが身はふりぬれど心は消えぬ物にぞありける
- shirayuki no tomo ni waga mi wa furinuredo kokoro wa kienu mono ni zo arikeru
- With the falling snows, old age, too, has descended upon my body, but my heart―ah, that remains unextinguishably young![2]
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Etymology
Literally “topic unknown”.
Some scholars actually translate this as “circumstances unknown”.[3]
Pronunciation
Noun
題知らず • (dai shirazu)
- (poetry) a 詞書 (kotobagaki, “explanatory note”) stating that the topic, theme, or occasion of a selected waka poem is unknown; also, the poem with the unknown topic, theme, or occasion
See also
References
- ^ Haruo Shirane (2012) Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 (Translations from the Asian Classics), abridged edition, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 93
- ^ Helen Craig McCullough (1985) Brocade by Night: Kokin Wakashū and the Court Style in Japanese Classical Poetry, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 379
- ^ Edwin A. Cranston (1993) A Waka Anthology, volume two: Grasses of remembrance, part A, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, pages 15-16
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN