No. 7
Misfortune
登舟待便風
月色暗朦朧
欲碾香輪去
高山千万重
In English
- You board the boat and wait for a fair wind
- the moonlight is dim and hazy
- you would drive your fine carriage away
- but high mountains rise, layer upon layer
- Meaning
- The poem closes on high mountains piled one behind another. Taken together with the opening, where a boat sits waiting for a fair wind, it suggests holding off on setting out until the wind shifts in your favor.
- What to do today
- Look again at one urgent plan and see whether it can be pushed back.
- A word from the capybara
- If the wind will not come, a nap on the boat is a fine way to wait.
What 'Misfortune' means (glossary)
The explanations added by each temple differ. The poems and fortunes follow an Edo-period printed edition.
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