Kusanoki - Poem

[sanjuro]

Firstly I must apologise for being vague about names etc. My books are elsewhere and I am away from home at the moment. Hence my difficulty in locating this item with so few references.

 

At the last stand of the Kusanoki Clan, prior to the battle itself, one of the members of the Kusonoki clan paused to write a poem on the door or shutter of the temple where they had taken refuge. The poem went something like "I must return I suppose to those who are dead with bows".

The shutter on which this was scratched with an arrow head, was preserved at that temple. I am searching for a photograph of the shutter with the poem on it, and an accurate translation of the poem.

 

Can anyone assist please? :D

[k morita]

He was Kusunoki Masashige's son Kusunoki Masatsura.

[sanjuro]

:D Thank you Morita San. The name is now written large in my memory! :lol: It had completely escaped me, as had the name of the temple, The Nyoirin ji.

 

Although thanks to your jogging my memory, and subsequent internet searches I now have several translated versions of the poem itself, I am still looking for a photograph of the shutter with the poem on it.

[k morita]

Hi,

 

Below is Nyoirin-ji temple's web stie, and also photos.

http://www.nyoirinji.com/masatura.html

http://www.nyoirinji.com/houmotu.html

[sanjuro]

Once again, Thank you Morita san. Excellent! I now have all the info I asked for and more. When I went to the site you gave a link for, it took me an hour to get through all the links there. Not being a native Japanese it was hard going although very enjoyable as I tried to work out what was what. I enjoyed every minute, and downloaded stuff that will keep me going for weeks. Thanks again.

[Baka Gaijin]

Good morning all,

 

Ref:

 

http://www.nyoirinji.com/houmotu.html

 

If you look below the poem image, you will see an image described as 楠木正行公短剣 - Kusonoki Masayuki's Dagger.

 

This looks remarkably similar to those Meiji period Tourist items which often have inscriptions to Hachiman Dai Bosatsu. :?

 

see:

 

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6705&hilit=items+of+interest

 

Is this what they are based upon?

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

If you look below the poem image, you will see an image described as 楠木正行公短剣 - Kusonoki Masayuki's Dagger.

 

This looks remarkably similar to those Meiji period Tourist items which often have inscriptions to Hachiman Dai Bosatsu. :?

 

I've lost the account of how many Holy Nails are out there (being the only original one in Milano's Duomo ). Guess this is a similar slip.

Or they simply messed up the pictures.

[george trotter]

Some of the Kusunoki Clan must have survived as I met one here in Australia only 6 months ago...she was an exchange teacher at a highschool here. When I asked her her name she said Kusunoki Mie...I almost fell over...I mentioned the statue of Kusunoki Masashige at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo and she said "he's my uncle"...what a fibber!..Anyway, stranger still, it turned out we are both personal friends to the same teacher at a highschool near Kobe...what a small world.

Gotta love the Kusunoki Clan.

George.