15 sept 2004

Culture and Civilisation: "Pristine elegance / There, in the interior, / The rice planting song.

Furyu is often translated as style and hajime = origins, oku = interior. Even in a remote rural area there's culture and style which is the origin of city style. "

There's a tension between reading it as "even in these primitive songs we can find the roots of 'urbane' civilization" or "you have to go back to these primitive origins in order to find the origin of true art." The second might be a Western Romantic reading of the poem.

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