Today–a hokku by Sutejo \u6368\u5973 (1634-1698).<\/p>\n
gazing into mirroring water,
\neyebrows drawn gracefully —
\nriverside willow<\/p>\n
mizu kagami mite ya mayu kaku kawa yanagi<\/em> Is the one gazing into the water a human speaker, or is it an anthropomorphized willow tree?<\/p>\n In Tang China, the eyebrows of beautiful women were described as having\u00a0 the shape of willow leaves. Willow\u00a0 trees in general were associated with desirable women, as the supple shape of their branches suggest pliability and modesty. Sutejo’s verse alludes to this analogy.<\/p>\n In “Song of Everlasting Regret” \u9577\u6068\u6b4c, the Bo Juyi \u767d\u5c45\u6613 poem that was much admired in premodern Japan, the Emperor is reminded of his beloved by lotus blossoms and willows:<\/p>\n the lotus [blossoms] were like her face, the willow [leaves] were like her eyebrows I wasn’t aware of the “willow leaf” ideal. I had heard of the “moth antennae” analogy, but the willow leaf shape is considerably different; a lot closer to modern beauty standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today–a hokku by Sutejo \u6368\u5973 (1634-1698). gazing into mirroring water, eyebrows drawn gracefully — riverside willow mizu kagami mite ya mayu kaku kawa yanagi \u6c34\u93e1\u898b\u3066\u3084\u307e\u3086\u304b\u304f\u5ddd\u67f3 Is the one gazing into the water a human speaker, or is it an anthropomorphized willow tree? In Tang China, the eyebrows of beautiful women were described as having\u00a0 the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,15,3,29,31,26,30],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cac","tag-chinese-poetry","tag-early-modern","tag-haiku","tag-hokku","tag-sutejo","tag-women-haikai-poets","tag-women-poets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/narrowroadsouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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