
▼さて、詩吟では年末ともなると、忘年会的な行事と呼べる「詠い納め(うたいおさめ)」がございます。(ちなみに、画像の子どもは飛行少年ではございません)
▼私は例年ですと4行詩を詠うのですが、今年は8行詩(和歌入り)を吟じることにしました。そして、先週の詩吟教室の前に軽く飲んでしまい、居眠りしながら生徒さんたちの伴奏をして、酔い覚ましに初めて「母」を吟じてみました。
▼何とか7分間の詩文を、2回吟じ終えましたので、無謀な挑戦かも知れないですが、とっても好きな吟題なので、詠い納めの舞台に向けて練習に励みたいと思っています。
【母(非行少年の悔悟】 松口月城作
ふるさとの 栗もくるみもうれたれば
おまえを思うと母の文くる
呼びたくも
呼ぶことならぬガラス戸に
息吹きかけて母と書くなり
非行の少年 囹圄(れいご)に泣く
無限の悔恨(かいこん) 思い 窮(きわ)まらんと 浴す
ああ吾(われ)過(あやま)てり 吾(われ)過(あやま)てり
終夜(しゅうや)眠(ねむ)らず 独房(どくぼう)の中(うち)
頭(こうべ)を 上げては 母を思い 枕に伏しても母
慈顔(じがん) 仏の如く 我が 瞳に浮かぶ
かくまでも
なげきたまいぬ吾ゆえに
日毎ふえゆく母の白髪
海嶽(かいがく)の 恩愛 今 始めて識(し)る
一輪の 寒月(かんげつ) 獄窓(ごくそう)を照らす
Now, at the end of the year in Shigin, there is a "Utai Osame" which can be called a year-end party-like event. (By the way, the child in the picture is not a flying boy.)
Usually I recite a 4-line poem, but this year I decided to recite an 8-line poem (with waka poems). And I had a light drink before last week's shigin class and accompanied the students as they dozed off and tried to sober up by reciting "Mother" for the first time.
I managed to finish the 7-minute poem twice, which may have been a reckless challenge, but it is my very favorite subject, so I would like to practice hard for the final recitation on stage.
Mother (Repentance of a juvenile delinquent) by Matsukuchi Getsujyo.
If only I could have chestnuts and walnuts in my hometown
When I think of you, my mother's letter comes
I want to call out to you
to the glass door that I cannot call
I blew on it and wrote 'Mother'.
A juvenile delinquent, weeping for his wisdom
I bathe in endless regret
Oh, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry
All night long I sleep in my cell
When I lift up my head, I think of my mother, and when I lie down on my pillow, I still think of her.
Her face like a Buddha in my eyes
Even so
I who cannot grieve
My mother's hair grows gray day by day
I know for the first time the love I owe to Kaitake
A single cold moon illuminates the prison window