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遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな osoki hi no tsumorite tōki mukashi kana Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past

The long slow days piling up, and how far away the past.

The long slow days of spring
piling up, so far away
the past		 osoki hi no
tsumorite tōki
mukashi kana		 遅き日の
つもりて遠き
昔かな
Buson buson 蕪村

遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな (osoki hi no tsumorite tōki mukashi kana): the long slow days piling up, and how far away the past. 遅き日 is the long day of late spring, the season word, when the sun sets late and the day seems not to end; つもりて is piling up, said of days as of snow; 遠き昔 is the far past, and かな the exclamation. In 1920 the writer 木村架空 gave it two parents in the old court poetry: Narihira on the days that pile up into a man's age, and Ietaka on snow piling on a peak. Blyth heard the bitterness of passing time in its sounds; Shirane heard the many springs gone since a youth grown far away. The English follows Haruo Shirane's, from his Early Modern Japanese Literature of 2002.

Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past (遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past 遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな osoki hi no tsumorite tōki mukashi kana Vertical Block VB3C
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past (遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past 遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな osoki hi no tsumorite tōki mukashi kana Vertical Block VB6C
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past (遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past 遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな osoki hi no tsumorite tōki mukashi kana Vertical Cursive VC6B
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past (遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past 遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな osoki hi no tsumorite tōki mukashi kana Vertical Cursive VC6C
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past (遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past 遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな osoki hi no tsumorite tōki mukashi kana Vertical Design VD3B
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past (遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past 遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな osoki hi no tsumorite tōki mukashi kana Vertical Design VD3C
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past (遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past 遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな osoki hi no tsumorite tōki mukashi kana Vertical Design VD6C
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past (遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past 遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな osoki hi no tsumorite tōki mukashi kana Vertical Semi-Cursive VS6C
More about 遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かな

The verse is Buson's, first printed in 1784 in his 蕪村句集 under the headnote 懐旧, longing for the past; the 1992 Kōdansha complete works dates it to 1775 from his own verse-book.

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Japanese Scroll of Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past (osoki hi no tsumorite tōki mukashi kana) — Calligraphy by Eri Takase

Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past (osoki hi no tsumorite tōki mukashi kana)

Haiku by Buson on a traditional Japanese Scroll by Master Eri Takase.

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