Affiliation: Graduate School of Science, Osaka University (Japan)
Research Fields: Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry (especially interested in Non-commutative Iwasawa Theory)
Address: Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University Room b547/549
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Kehu sahe ya hiku hito mo naki mi kakure ni ohuru ayame no ne nomi nakare mu
Although it is Duanwu Festival today,
no one pick up Siberian irises hidden in the riverside;
only their roots will be carried by the flow.
And then I will isolate myself and cry out lacking discretion.
This is a love poem sended by Hotaru Hyōbuykoh-no-miya
(a younger brother of Hikaru Genji)
to Princess
Tamakazura (quoted from The tale of Genji).
This poem was criticised
by the narrator as kotonaru koto nashi ya (It's not so great),
and moreover the answer from Tamakazura
was also severe:
Arahare te itodo asaku mo miyuru kana
ayame mo waka zu naka re keru ne no
(As you described explicitly "I will isolate myself and cry out lacking discretion,"
you seem more and more superficial to me).
Siberian iris is dispensable to celebrating
Tango no Sekku (Duanwu Festival), which is
also called Shōbu no Sekku
(Shōbu is one of Japanese names of Siberian iris).
I would like to express my hearty sympathy with everybody suffering from the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake.
Cherry blossoms at Kiya-machi, Kyoto