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Whose fault is it for my confused heart? (​み​ち​の​く​の​, Waka 14)

from Ogura Hyakunin Isshu by Eidon

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"Ah! Why does love distract my thoughts,
Disordering my will !
I'm like the pattern on the cloth
Of Michinoku hill, —
All in confusion still."

It's the fourteenth waka of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, by the Kawara Sadaijin (Minamoto no Toru).

A piece for piano, contrabass, and percussion.

lyrics

Michinoku no
shinobu mojizuri
tare yue ni
midare someishi
ware naranaku ni

みちのくの
しのぶもぢずり
誰故に
乱れそめにし
我ならなくに

Minamoto no Toru 源 融 (822-895)

credits

from Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, track released March 2, 2024
Translation:
A Hundred Verses from Old Japan, being a translation of the Hyaku-nin Isshiu, by William N. Porter. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1909.

Logo:
my elaboration of the following two pictures:
Hiimbrown's pixabay.com/illustrationsa/abstract-black-white-pattern-class-7752502/
diego_torres's pixabay.com/photos/heart-pebbles-sand-stones-beach-1407248/
Many thanks to the authors of the two pictures.


LibriVox recording of Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, edited by Fujiwara no Teika.
Read by kaseumin.
Public domain: archive.org/details/hyakunin_isshu_librivox

With thanks to the Editor and to Kaseumin-san with her beautiful voice.

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Eidon Leuven, Belgium

Jazz, neo-classical, avant-pop, generative.

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