Kanso Jishū - Ten Poems for the Winter

Japanese: 寒早十首 - かんそうじっしゅ
Kanso Jishū - Ten Poems for the Winter

…Poems such as “Five Boat Trips” (236), “Meeting a White-headed Old Man on the Road” (221), and the series of dialogues with the Old Man of the Ige Chest (228-231) are eye-opening critical poems. In particular, the masterpiece “Ten Poems for a Cold Morning” (200-209) is a collection of poems by artisans from the Ninna period that depict ten aspects of the miserable lives of the common people in the provinces, and can be considered a dialogue about poverty in the Heian period. “Dreaming of Amau” (117), which pours out the heart-rending grief of mourning the death of a beloved child, is a deeply moving piece of elegiac literature. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Kanhaya Jyushu" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…〈舟行五事〉(236),〈路に白頭の翁に遇ふ〉(221),藺笥(いげ)の翁との問答連作(228~231)などは目の覚めるような批判詩である。ことに傑作〈寒早十首〉(200~209)は地方の悲惨な民衆生活10態を描く仁和期の職人尽しであり,平安朝における貧窮問答歌といえる。また愛児の死を悼んで切々たる悲痛の情を吐露した〈阿満(あまう)を夢みる〉(117)は,彫りの深い哀傷文学である。…

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