#084 The summer season has come,…
| Size： | about 25×34 cm |
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| Dressing： | screen |
What verse?
| verse: | Hototogisu, hana-tachibana ni, nari ni keri, ume ni kawori shi, uguhisu no koe |
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| (imho): | The summer season has come, when a lesser cuckoo sings on a blooming japanese orange tree… |
| poet: | Saigyo |
| in: | the end of 12 century |
Two season is depicted in this verse, summer with lesser cuckoo and spring with nightingale. The connection is so sudden that i am not able to understand what he said.
Perhaps it means “blood parasitism”, which a lesser cuckoo plants its eggs in a nightingale’s nest , i doubt..