くるしくもふりくる雨か三輪が崎
佐野のわたりに家もあらなくに
佐野のわたりに家もあらなくに
- Roma-ji
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Kurushiku mo furikuru ame ka Miwa ga saki
Sano no watari ni ie mo aranaku ni - English Translation
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In anguish falls
this rain that pours and pours—
Miwa’s cape;
at Sano’s crossing there is
not even a house at all.
- Meaning
- This rain that pours and pours in anguish, as though to torment my lonely heart—at Miwa’s cape, at Sano’s crossing, there is not even a single house to take shelter in.
- Commentary
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Volume Four, Serpent’s Lust.
Toyoo, the third son of a family that prospered by fishing, took shelter from the rain with a noblewoman he met on his travels. Enchanted by her beauty, Toyoo spoke of a Man’yōshū poem about this place, overlapping it with the scene of taking shelter from the rain.
Rain can also be understood in a religious sense. Miwa’s cape lies near Kumano Shrine, and the poem sings of a mythic world together with the lonely heart of a lone traveler.
- Author
- Ueda Akinari
- Source
- Ugetsu Monogatari
- Other
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- Even birds’ cries, too— the thickets of the secret mountain of vows.
- Even if forgot, will a traveler draw and drink from Tamagawa— in the depths of Mount Kōya, these waters of Tamagawa?
- When spring has come, will it be seen as flowers? On white snow clinging to the branches, the bush warbler cries.
- With deep intent I stained my heart at that time; so it may be seen as flowers of snow that could not fade away.