Tanka challenge 11/2/09

Morning mist rises
From the inlet, ghost-like trees
Stand watch on its banks.
Silently they let me pass
As if I too am a ghost.

Well, THAT'S bloody irritating

The PDF submission form on the WK Herald's page has locked up like it's got a curse on it. It won't print, it won't scroll up or down, and I'm wondering if it's about to crash my browser. Nope. I closed it. Now I can't even open it.

Damn it, I'm going to have to write it up from scratch. Again. With all the kanji pasted in to the appropriate spots. And all the mother swiving page numbers from NCMJ. Assuming I can even get the blasted thing to open. Which it won't do now.

I'm sticking my notes here for the time being.

1. Saionji 西園寺, translates as "Western garden temple." This locative name does not appear in Name Construction In Mediaeval Japan , however, its component elements can be found on pages 104 ("West," "sai"), 142 ("Garden," "sono"), and 138 ("Buddhist temple, " "ji") of the  Revised Edition. The Saionji were a branch of the aristocratic Fujiwara family which rose to prominence in the 13th century. (Phonetic pronunciation "SIGH ohn JEE").
(ATTACH p. 528 of Papinot's Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan).
How much you wanna bet I'd better explain that the Chinese reading of  園 isn't in NCMJ?
 

2. Hanae: "hana" ("Flower") 花appears on p. 168 of NCMJ  and "e" ("Inlet")  江 appears on p. 151, of NCMJ. (Phonetic pronunciation Hahn-EYE.)