r/classicalchinese • u/gunkanreddit • 1h ago
Poetry Do these four 8th-century Japanese kanshi rhyme correctly in Middle Chinese? (from the Man'yōshū)
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I'm working on study of the Classical Chinese (漢詩) of the Man'yōshū 萬葉集. It contains only four poems written and i can read them in japanese but i have no idea if those poems resemble rime in classical chinese.
愛河波浪已先滅
苦海煩惱亦無結
從來厭離此穢土
本願託生彼淨刹
俗道變化猶撃目
人事經紀如申臂
空與浮雲行大虚
心力共盡無所寄
餘春媚日宜怜賞
上巳風光足覽遊
柳陌臨江縟unknown in my sources服
桃源通海泛仙舟
雲罍酌桂三清湛
羽爵催人九曲流
縱醉陶心忘彼我
杪春餘日媚景麗
初巳和風拂自輕
來燕銜泥賀宇入
歸鴻引蘆迥赴瀛
聞君嘯侶新流曲
禊飲催爵泛河清
雖欲追尋良此宴
還知染懊脚 two characters unknown in my sources
I don't even know in which verses should rime.