Baramoni no tsukureru oda o hamu karasu manabuta harete hatahoko ni ori

波羅門の作れる小田を食む烏
瞼腫れて幡桙に居り

Roma-ji: Baramoni no tsukureru oda o hamu karasu manabuta harete hatahoko ni ori
English Translation: In the little field
that the Brahman priest has made,
the crow that pecks the grain,
with its eyelids swollen up,
perches on the banner-pole.
Meaning: The crow that ate from the field made by the Brahman priest now sits on the banner-pole, its eyelids all swollen.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Poems with Tales of Origin and Miscellaneous Poems 3856

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Two poems by Prince Takamiya on several things."
A crow that pilfered rice from the Brahman's field sits on the temple's banner-pole, its eyelids swollen as if in punishment. It is a comic poem on things that links Buddhist retribution with the look of a crow.
It is thought to be a banquet game of weaving in the names of things. The Brahman is taken to be Bodhisena, the Brahman Archbishop who came from India and led the eye-opening ceremony of the Great Buddha at Tōdaiji.
Prince Takamiya is a royal about whom nothing further is known.

First line, "Baramoni no," refers to India's priestly caste, here thought to mean Bodhisena, bringing in the unusual subject of a foreign monk.
Second line, "tsukureru oda o," means "the field he made."
Third line, "hamu karasu," means "the crow that eats its grain."
Fourth line, "manabuta harete," means "its eyelids swollen," read either as punishment for raiding a holy field or as a picture of the crow's face.
Final line, "hatahoko ni ori," means "it perches on the banner-pole," closing within the Buddhist world of temple rites. Where the preceding poem, 3855, takes a plant, this one takes a bird, and the two form a pair.
Author: Prince Takamiya
Source: Manyoshu
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