寒の水 ものの哀れと 空語り・・・
Kan no mizu ‘Mono no aware’ to sora katari
Rain in Midwinter…
The sky said to be sensitive to the pathos of life…
”Mono no aware (物の哀れ, mono no aware?, lit. "the pathos of things"), also translated as "an empathy toward things," or "a sensitivity of ephemera," is a Japanese term used to describe the awareness of mujo or the transience of things and a bittersweet sadness at their passing. The term was coined in the eighteenth century by the Edo-period Japanese cultural scholar Motoori Norinaga, and was originally a concept used in his literary criticism of The Tale of Genji, and later applied to other seminal Japanese works including the Man'yōshū, becoming central to his philosophy of literature, and eventually to Japanese cultural tradition.”
