Chihayafuru Part I Page #4

Anyway, could you check

out the karuta club?

For me to give practice to karuta is...

Is...

...is an elegant hobby.

Alright! Got it!

Dammit!

What is this?

Isn't competitive karuta so cool?!

You frequently jam your fingers.

I can't seem to hear the poem at all.

Poem?

You can take cards even if

you don't hear the songs.

The "Beginning Character"...

Silence!

They are magnificent poems passed

down to us from ancient times.

This is...

This is...

This is blasphemy!

Ah! Wait...

There she goes...

She loves traditional stuff?

Ayase, you should give her up.

She doesn't suit competitive karuta.

No! There is no bad

person who likes karuta.

Here.

[ Application ]

[ Resignation ]

Don't get the wrong idea.

I will only join because

of school regulations.

I will quit whenever I want to.

Oh my.

And if I don't leave within 6 seconds

I might not catch my usual train.

Where are you Oe?

Kana!.

You'll get scolded if you don't run.

So you hate running.

Running while wearing a hakama

is a ribald thing to do.

Ribald?

My family is in the

traditional clothing business.

That's so cool!

I chose the archery club

because I can wear kimono.

I deeply love the

cultivated Japanese culture.

Despite it all, the

symbolic Hundred Poems

is being used as a fastest

fingers first ultra quiz contest.

Um, you see... It's true that

karuta is being used where you

won't hear many of the characters.

But I like a poem out of it.

Do you know?

"Chihayaburu Kamiyo / Even

when the gods Held sway"

"Held sway in the ancient

days, I have never heard"

"That water gleamed with autumn

red As it does in Tatta's stream"

The first person who taught

me karuta said this to me.

He said this is my poem.

Your sweetheart said it?

Your sweetheart said it right?

No, no, no. Um. No.

No, no. He's not my sweetheart.

Why'd you ask?

Because it's a love poem.

Love?

The poem is about the Tatta's

stream is filled with autumn red,

and looks so pretty, right?

You are indeed correct.

But a thousand years ago, Ariwara

no Narihira hid his love with it.

Hid?

Because it's a forbidden

love with the empress.

This poem is about

former lovers that was

dedicated to the empress.

A poem Narihira made.

Through the fierce stream,

his passionate feelings

was intense to dye it red.

He is saying that he

still yearns for her.

It is that kind of poem.

With such short words, there

can be many ways of reading it.

That's why poems are interesting.

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character form

nowadays is just a 31 character tweet.

Is something wrong?

It has become so red.

My head

has become so red.

Wow.

Wow! Wow! Wow! Tell me more!

Among the Hundred Poems, even though the 43rd

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