Torataro Yoshimura · Tosa
Original
吉野山
Torataro Yoshimura's death poem, "吉野山風に乱るるもみじ葉は我が打つ太". Read the original Japanese, translation, meaning, and historical background. The poem turns beautiful autumn leaves into blood smoke.
Person
A Tosa loyalist who raised the Tenchugumi uprising in Yamato and died during its defeat. His figure belongs to the mountains of failure, where idealism, blood, and autumn scenery become inseparable.
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Translation
See the maple leaves scattered by wind on Yoshino as the blood-mist raised by my sword.
Poetic Shape A Japanese death poem is less a final explanation than a last shape given to feeling. Its brevity matters: a life is not narrated, but compressed into a few lines that leave room for silence.
Reading
The poem turns beautiful autumn leaves into blood smoke. The defeat of the Tenchugumi appears with one sharp accent of red.
Background
Passed down as the death poem of Yoshimura Torataro, defeated in the Tenchugumi Incident. The flight and death in the mountains of Yamato make the beauty of the scenery feel crueler. A Tosa loyalist who raised the Tenchugumi uprising in Yamato and died during its defeat.
Source / Transmission Wording and readings may differ by transmission; this page treats the text as one circulated form.
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