Note 30 — JAPAN IN THE TENTH CENTURY
Arthur Waley translation
In allusion to the poem: ‘Like a river that has dived into the earth, but is flowing all the while; so my heart, long silent, leaps up replenished in its love.’
Moreover, the azalea signifies silence because it is of the shade of yellow known as kuchinashi and kuchi nashi means ‘mouthless,’ ‘dumb.’