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In the Hyakunin Isshu, the 17th poem ([found
here](http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/frames/hyakuframes.html))
has me stumped. In the manga/anime ちはやふる, the title is written and pronounced
as ちはやふる, but on the card for the game the manga revolved around ([also found
here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogura_Hyakunin_Isshu)) it is written as
ちはやぶる in furigana. Is it pronounced as ちはやふる or ちはやぶる? If it's ちはやぶる, then why
is the title of the manga ちはやふる?

EDIT: Saw on the second-to-last sentence I wrote ちはやふる twice... glad you guys
knew what I meant :)
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Hyakunin Isshu pronunciation; ちはやふる vs. ちはやぶる?
According to [this](http://www11.plala.or.jp/samma116/22/76/02.html), the
original man'yougana version of this poem has ふ, but this particular makura-
kotoba in other poems is written either with ぶ or with spellings that could be
read either way. At some point in the past this poem's version ended up
changed to match the rest, but whether or not the original was supposed to be
ぶ anyway is unclear.

As for the correct Heian-jidai pronunciation, it would be probably either
[tiɸajaɸuru] or [tiɸajaburu], depending on which was the actual original
version. (ɸ is the modern Japanese f before u; j is what in English is
typically spelled y; and u is the modern Spanish u rather than the modern
Japanese u, which is more like [ɯ].)
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