Calligraphy translation request
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川端康成 「秋の野に鈴鳴らし行く人見えず」
I'm sure it is very poetic with deeper meaning but literally it says something like "cannot see a soul that will ring the bell in the autumn fields".
The calligraphy is some mean 狂草.
Looking at the actual calligraphy, it appears to be written as:
秋乃野に鈴鳴羅し行く人見えず。
I'm sure it is very poetic with deeper meaning but literally it says something like "cannot see a soul that will ring the bell in the autumn fields".
The calligraphy is some mean 狂草.
Looking at the actual calligraphy, it appears to be written as:
秋乃野に鈴鳴羅し行く人見えず。
- 22 Feb 2008
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Ah, I see. It's written in 変体仮名.
秋乃野爾鈴鳴羅し以具人見衣ず
Aki no no ni suzu narashi yuku hito miezu
秋乃野爾鈴鳴羅し以具人見衣ず
Aki no no ni suzu narashi yuku hito miezu
- 22 Feb 2008
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The author Kawabata Yasunari won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. The poem was composed right after he dealt with press at that time. "Those who go in the autumn fields with bells ringing" ostensibly refers to pilgrims, but it's said that that's a metaphor of reporters. It's also said that 野に鈴（ベル） "no ni bell" is a word play for "Nobel".
