はるのきるかすみの衣ぬきをうすみ
山風にこそみだるべらなれ
山風にこそみだるべらなれ
- Roma-ji
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Haru no kiru kasumi no koromo nuki o usumi
yamakaze ni koso midaru beranare - English Translation
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The spring-worn robe of haze, its weft threads thin,
by the mountain wind is like to be torn and rent.
- Meaning
- The robe called spring haze, worn in spring, has thin weft threads; blown by the mountain wind, it seems as though it might be torn and fray.
- Commentary
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Spring Songs, Book One
The drifting spring haze is likened to a robe of thin silk, and the poem fashions the conceit that, because its weft threads are weak, it might be torn by the wind blowing down from the mountains.
- Author
- Ariwara no Yukihira
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- For your sake I go out into the spring fields to gather young greens; on my sleeves the snow continues to fall.
- Perhaps going to Kasuga Field to gather young greens, people go with the sleeves of their white garments fluttering.
- Even the green of ever-constant pines, when spring comes, now deepens by yet another degree.
- Each time the spring rain falls on my beloved’s robe, the green of the fields alone deepens its color.