袖ひぢてむすびし水のこほれるを
春立つけふの風やとくらん
春立つけふの風やとくらん
- Roma-ji
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Sode hijite musubishi mizu no kōreru o
haru tatsu kyō no kaze ya tokuran - English Translation
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With sleeves soaked through,
the water once I cupped now froze;
now, on this spring day,
is today’s gentle wind
melting that ice away?
- Meaning
- The water I once scooped up, soaking my sleeves without my knowing in the heat of summer, lay frozen through the cold season—might today’s warm wind, on the day spring begins, be melting that ice away?
- Commentary
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Volume One: Spring Songs (Upper)
A poem composed on the day the Beginning of Spring.
It alludes to the phrase in the Liji (Yueling), “In the first month of spring, the east wind melts the ice.”
- Author
- Ki no Tsurayuki
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
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