translatinghaiku : Message: Kasa no Yuki . Snow on my Hat

「我がものと思えば軽し傘の雪」
waga mono to omoeba karoshi kasa no yuki

Kikaku (1661-1707)

"My snow!"--when I think that,
it weighs almost nothing
on my umbrella-hat!

--Henderson, "An Intrduction to Haiku."

http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/04/kikaku-waga-yuki.html

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*傘の雪 Kasa no Yuki, snow on the Umbrella, in Old Edo

*In the language of Old Edo, the expression *"kasa no yuki" "snow on my
umbrella"* was used to indicate something that you would like to have, to
posess.

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From: lbolenyc

Even if we didn't know that this haiku is by Kikaku, it has always
struck me as being somewhat artifical and self-centered.

It makes me think of a slightly different 'take' on the 'snow on hat'
theme, written by Basho. Haruo Shirane, in his book "Traces of
Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho," gives
two different versions of the following haiku (transliteration and
translations by Shirane):

ichibito | yo | kono | kasa | uroo | yuki | no | kasa
market-buyers | ! | this | hat | sell | snow | 's | hat

market-shoppers!
let me sell you this hat
full of snow

Shirane says:

"In a comic style reminiscent of the speech of a kyoogen (comic
drama) actor, the speaker offers to sell a hat piled with snow. Such
a hat is priceless to the poet, who prizes snow, a major object of
poetic beauty, but worthless to merchants dealing in material goods.
In a haikai-esque inversion, the useless becomes valuable."

This haiku appears in "The Records of a Weather-exposed Skeleton"
(1684). It was written in Nagoya, where Basho attended a snow-viewing
party.

Shirane, in a footnote, makes the following citation for an alternate
version:

"Oi nikki" (1695, edited by Shikoo) gives the following version.

At Hoogetsu's residence

ichibito ni to the market shoppers
ide kore uran I shall go and sell this:
kasa no yuki a hatful of snow

--Larry
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translatinghaiku/message/179

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googeling for 笠の雪

わ‐が‐もの【我が物】

（我がもの）端唄（はうた）・うた沢。本調子。文化・文政年間に一中節の都源内が載�邏覆靴燭箸いΑ�
「我ものとおもへば軽し笠の雪」という其角の句を冒頭に、雪の夜女のもとへ通う心ぼ�鬚Δ燭辰燭發痢�
http://www.jah.ne.jp/~fuuryusi/hauta-2.htm

When I think it all belongs to me, the snow on my hat feels light ... by
Kikaku was used in a song (ha-uta) about a man walking to meet his lady at
night.

市人よ此笠うらふ雪の傘
Ichibito ni ... there are three Japanese versions of this haiku

使い古した傘、それも雪の付いた傘を売ろうというのは「竹斎」級の風狂である。俳諚�澆乏�磴靴診両屬亮��箸罎箸蠅反瓦侶擇笋�気魎兇犬気擦覦豢隋�
この句には、他に「市人に此傘（からかさ）の雪うらん」（赤冊子草稿）、「市人にぼ�い農ГΔ蕕鸚磴粒沺� （笈日記）、「市人にいで是うらん雪の笠
」（三冊子）など推敲過程の句形が数多く残っている。
http://www.ese.yamanashi.ac.jp/~itoyo/basho/nozarasi/nozara23.htm#ku3

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呉天に白髪の恨を重ぬといへ共
「呉天」は「呉国の空」で、「(都から)遠い異郷の空」のたとえ。「呉怒�掘廚魃咾濆�鵑税両屬龍腓法�系惰麈�痢嵬訝絅禄鼎係眦靴棒磴鮓�襪△蕕鵝�(「�虚栗」)がある。

「白髪の恨を重ぬといへ共」は、「辛苦のために白髪になってしまうような愁いを重ぼ�佑討癲廚曚匹琉奸Ｃ羚颪了躾誘牟�(ぎょくせつ)の詩の一節に「笠重呉天
雪
鞋香楚地花」(笠ハ重シ呉天ノ雪鞋ハ香シ楚地ノ花)があり、
世阿弥作の謡曲「竹の雪」に「いつを呉山にあらねども、笠の雪の重さよ老の白髪とぼ�覆蠅� せん」がある。

http://www.bashouan.com/Database/Kikou/Okunohosomichi_03.htm

Basho in Oku no Hosomichi.

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Here is another proverb with the light snow on your own hat

A *voluntary* burden is no
burden.<http://www.ok312.com/j2e/wa.htm#%E6%88%91%E3%81%8C%E7%89%A9%EF%BC%BB%E9%\
9B%AA%EF%BC%BD%E3%81%A8%E6%80%9D%E3%81%88%E3%81%B0%E8%BB%BD%E3%81%97%E7%AC%A0%E3\
%81%AE%E9%9B%AA%EF%BC%BB%E4%B8%8A%EF%BC%BD%E3%80%82>
http://www.ok312.com/j2e/wa.htm

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*我が物と思えば軽し笠の雪*
自分の利益となる負担であれば、それほど苦痛は感じないことをいう。
http://www.srch.net/kakejiku/shiori/shiori10.htm

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名をうづむな骨はくだくと笠の雪
na o uzumu na hone wa kudaku to kasa no yuki
西鬼

http://tois1.nichibun.ac.jp/database/html2/haikai/haikai_i146.html

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googeling for 傘の雪

蛭子神社のある名張市出身の超有名人といえば・・・そう、俳聖・松尾芭蕉である。府�隼區声劼�蕕發曚俵瓩け瀕啝皜㌃發砲篭臠蠅�﨓�気譴討�蝓△修海帽錣�
れた句は『市人や此傘の雪賣らふ』というもので、「松尾芭蕉が雪の降る蛭子神社の載�廚蠅法��談蠶�砲△辰娠瀕啝獷量臍阿捻咾鵑澄廚箸いο辰箸箸發謀�
わっているそうだ。実際は、ちょっと事情が異なったようだが、２月初旬という、１倍��任發辰箸盍┐せ�釮乏��譴觧圓陵融劼函△覆襪曚疋ぅ瓠璽犬�鼎覆覿�
である。
http://www.kintetsu.co.jp/ensentokusyu/omaturiguide/omaturiguide_info/festival00\
00041.html

Ebisu Shrine in Nagoya

市人や此傘の雪売らふ
ichibito ya kono kasa no yuki urau

Photo of the Stone Monument with the Haiku
http://www.pref.mie.jp/BUNKA/hp/HAIKU/kuhi/img/185A.jpg

http://www.pref.mie.jp/BUNKA/hp/HAIKU/kuhi/185.htm

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There might be plenty more of the snow on our hat/umbrella!
GABI

BACK TO Kikaku, waga yuki ...
http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/04/kikaku-waga-yuki.html

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