Love at first sight
“I fell deeply in love with someone I had vaguely ‘seen,’ like a figure perceived through the morning mist.”
The poem comes from Japan’s oldest collection of poetry, Manyoshu. It was sent by a woman named Kasa no Iratsume to her lover whom she met after yearning for him for a long time. In the period in which Manyoshu was penned, the word “see” conveyed a range of meanings, from simple viewing to physical love. In fact, the verb “to see” here represents all such meanings as meeting someone for the first time, conversing with someone, and making love.
Manyoshu (ten thousand leaves)
Japan’s oldest collection of poems, it consists of 20 volumes containing more than 4,500 poems. Manyoshu is believed to have been composed and compiled sometime between the 7th and 8th century.Many people have experienced “love at first sight,” but why does the mere sight of a certain person provoke such a strong reaction? Man’s distant ancestors once relied on smell and pheromones to find suitable mates. Later, our ancestors developed the ability to see color, which led to a reduced sensitivity to odors and pheromones, and now most of the information necessary for finding a partner is visually perceived. Therefore, there must be a close relationship between the evolution of color vision and the criteria for selecting suitable mates.
You can say so while u haven’t yet expereinced the love at first sight. No one tends to devote too much on someone whom you just meet once but it is how they feel.
Though I dont really understand the poem even if I read it many times, I still can say that love is something about how dare you are; it sometimes come to u accidently.