The quick or short Language Questions Thread (not grammar)

[Belthazar]

@rodan

(I think there was a thread about it on this forum at some point, so others may know more if curious).

There was. In fact, I happened to research this specific poem myself.

@Belthazar’s poem research club for the betterment of everyone’s education: reading マンガ✖くり返しでスイスイ覚えられる百人一首

Alrighty, here goes 17 立ち別れ いなばの山の 峰に生ふる まつとし聞かば 今帰り来む（中納言行平）

Translation

A time of parting. But if I hear The pines that grow On the peak of Mount Inaba, I will return.

Author

While researching poem 17, several resources told me that Namihira (author of 17) was the younger half-brother of some guy called Ariwara-no-Yukihira, but I could not for the life of me work out what his claim to fame was. Well, he’s the guy who wrote this poem. They share fathers, but Yukihira has a different mother…

Just noticed I numbered it 17 instead of 16. Whoops.