Template:RQ:Kokinshū/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from the Kokin Wakashū.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters, both are optional:

• |1= - the book number
• |2= - the poem number, and extra text if necessary (such as poet's name, and/or reference to other poetry anthologies, if any)

Examples

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Kokinshū|1|1}}

    {{ja-usex|年の内に春は来にけりひととせを去年とや言はむ今年とや言はむ|としのうちにはるはきにけりひととせをこぞとやいはむことしとやいはむ|rom=toshi no uchi ni haru wa kinikeri hitotose o kozo to ya iwan kotoshi to ya iwan}}

  • {{RQ:Kokinshū|8|365 by {{w|Ariwara no Yukihira}} {{ll|ja|朝臣|Ason}}; also {{w|Ogura Hyakunin Isshu|Hyakunin Isshu}}, poem 16}}

    {{ja-usex|立ち別れいなばの山の峰に生ふるまつとし聞かば今かへりこむ|たちわかれいなばのやまのみねにおふるまつとしきかばいまかへりこむ|rom=tachiwakare Inaba-no-yama no mine ni ouru matsu to shi kikaba ima kaerikon}}

• Result:
  • 905–914, Kokin Wakashū (book 1, poem 1)

    年(とし)の内(うち)に春(はる)は来(き)にけりひととせを去年(こぞ)とや言(い)はむ今年(ことし)とや言(い)はむ

    toshi no uchi ni haru wa kinikeri hitotose o kozo to ya iwan kotoshi to ya iwan

    Within the year spring has come; should this one year be called “last year” or “this year”?

  • 905–914, Kokin Wakashū (book 8, poem 365 by Ariwara no Yukihira Ason; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 16)

    立(た)ち別(わか)れいなばの山(やま)の峰(みね)に生(お)ふるまつとし聞(き)かば今(いま)かへりこむ

    tachiwakare Inaba-no-yama no mine ni ouru matsu to shi kikaba ima kaerikon

    I depart for mount Inaba with pines growing on its peak; if I hear “pine” (“wait!”), I shall return right away!