Poetry of motion

[John A Stuart]

Mike Y. posted this on FB and I found it interesting However the translation eludes me. It is 擬法珠風雪不溜 I may have transcribed some kanji wrong and hence my failure. Anyone able to give a meaningful translation? John

[Mark]

John

 

he posted this with the picture "Giboji Fusetsu Ni Todomarazu..... akin to causing a cut that seems like people falling off a bridge with no handrails.....or something like that." I took it that was the translation, maybe I misunderstood

[John A Stuart]

Yes he mentions Tanabashi 棚橋 which is a bridge. Giboshi 擬宝珠 (a bridge railing) Fusetsu 布設 (construction) Ni Todomarazu 止まる (stopping). Anyhow he signed off saying, you guys figure it out. I can't. John

[John A Stuart]

Does the passage I wrote not refer to the hada and his way of describing it. The bridge cut passage is on the right hand side above the signature, I believe. John

[Markus]

"Giboshi" is actually not the handrail but the onion-shaped ornament on a bridge handrail.

So the inscription "Snow does not accumulate on a giboshi [ornament]" makes actually

sense as it IMHO refers to the same thing as a snow or dew drop slips off a leave without

using any force. And voila, a nickname of a supersharp blade.

 

http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/g/giboshi.htm

[John A Stuart]

Great Markus. The inscription on the left hand picture though; is that refering to the blades appearance? Something about the method of creating snowstorms and un-pool like patterning? John

[Markus]

@John: At the left hand picture all I can see is the kiristuke-mei of the

nickname "giboshi fûsetsu tomarazu" and highlighted in white the same

characters.

[John A Stuart]

Just me buggered up somehow. I read the 'highlighted in white' bit as 擬法珠 whereas giboshi is 擬宝珠 The rest as huusetsu 風雪 snowstorm, tomarasen 不溜 non-collected. Ahh, the light is dawning. The onion shaped ornament on the bridge will not collect snow in a snowstorm. I am slow, not totally stopped. Thanks for the kick in the slats. John

[Brian]

"Giboshi" is actually not the handrail but the onion-shaped ornament on a bridge handrail.

So the inscription "Snow does not accumulate on a giboshi [ornament]" makes actually

sense as it IMHO refers to the same thing as a snow or dew drop slips off a leave without

using any force. And voila, a nickname of a supersharp blade.

 

http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/g/giboshi.htm

 

Great work Markus! Don't know what we would do without you few translation experts we have here...

 

Brian

[Markus]

Thank you Brian four your kind words.

 

@John: And I thought I was missing something :D I even checked facebook

if there are more pics provided by Mike. Somehow I missed his post on FB.

Maybe because I am hardly ever scrolling down very far.