Komachi Story - Komachi Story

Japanese: 小町草紙 - こまちのそうし

Otogi-zoshi. Founded in the Muromachi period. In the early modern period, it was included in the Shibukawa edition of Otogi-zoshi and became popular. Ono no Komachi, who was famous for her natural beauty and talent for waka poetry, had grown old and become a pitiful sight, sheltering from the rain and rain in a hut near the capital. When she went out to the village to beg, people mocked her, saying, "Look at what the old Komachi has become." She made many wandering journeys from the eastern provinces to Oshu, and finally arrived at Ono in Tamazukuri, where she died in the grass. When Ariwara no Narihira came to Ono in Tamazukuri in search of the remains of the utamakura, he heard the first line of a poem, "As the autumn wind blows in the evening, so does the morning." along with the wind.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

御伽草子。室町時代の成立。近世になって渋川版御伽草子に収められ，普及した。天性の美貌と和歌の才で浮名を流した小野小町が，年老いて見るも無残な姿となり，都近くの草庵に雨露をしのいでいた。里へ物乞いに出ると，人々は〈古の小町がなれる姿を見よや〉とあざける。彼女は東国から奥州へと流浪の旅を重ね，玉造の小野にたどりつき，草原の中で死ぬ。在原業平が歌枕の跡を訪ねて玉造の小野まで来ると，吹く風とともに，〈暮れごとに秋風吹けば朝な朝な〉という歌の上の句が聞こえてくる。

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