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96 Japanese Miscellany and eventually, after much further research, he was able to discover only about a dozen such poems in tanha. The reason for this must be sought in the old poetical conventions. Japanese thirty-one- syllable poetry is composed according to rules that have been fixed for hundreds of years. These rules require that almost every subject treated shall be considered in some relation to one of the seasons. And this should be done in accordance with certain laws of grouping, — long- established conventions of association, recognized both in painting and in poetry: for example, the nightingale should be mentioned, or por- trayed, together with the plum-tree ; the sparrow, with the bamboo; the cuckoo, with the moon; frogs, with rain ; the butterfly, with flowers ; the bat, with the willow-tree. Every Japanese child knows something about these regulations. Now, it so happens that no such relations have been clearly fixed for the dragon-fly in tanka-^otixy — though in pictures we often see it perched on the edge of a water-bucket, or upon an ear of ripened rice. Moreover, in the classification of subject-groupings for poetry, the dragon-fly is not placed among mushi (" insects " — by ,
Dragon-flies 97 which word the poet nearly always means a musical insect of some sort) , but among zo, — a term of very wide signification ; for it includes the horse, cat, dog, monkey, crow, sparrow, tor- toise, snake, frog, — almost all fauna, in short. Thus the rarity of tanka-poems about dragon- flies may be explained. But why should dragon- flies be almost ignored in dodoitsu? Probably for the reason that this form of verse is usually devoted to the subject of love. The voiceless dragon-fly can suggest to the love-poet no such fancies as those inspired by the singing-insects, — especially by those night-crickets whose music lingers in the memory of some evening tryst. Out of several hundred dragon-fly poems col- lected for me, I find only seven relating, directly or indirectly, to the subject of love ; and not one of the seven is in twenty -six-syllable verse. But in the form hokku — limited to seventeen syllables— the poems on dragon-flies are almost as numerous as are the dragon-flies themselves in the early autumn. For in this measure there are few restraints placed upon the composer, either as to theme or method. Almost the only rule about hokku, — not at all a rigid one, — is that the poem shall be a little word-picture, 7 —
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A JAPANESE MISCELLANY By LAFCADIO H
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Illustrations " Oyama no, 0-Kon San
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Of a Promise Kept
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The Story of Kwashin Koji
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Studies Here and There
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