おもふどち春の山辺にうちむれて
そこともいはぬたびねしてしが
そこともいはぬたびねしてしが
- Roma-ji
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Omoudochi haru no yamabe ni uchimurete
soko to mo iwanu tabine shiteshi ga - English Translation
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With kindred hearts,
in the springtime hills,
together we would roam,
and, with no place in mind,
spend the night along the way.
- Meaning
- With companions of like heart, I would wander together through the spring hills and, without deciding any destination, spend the night along the way.
- Commentary
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Book II, Spring Poems (Part Two)
A poem composed on the theme of spring.
It expresses a longing to set out with kindred companions and roam freely. Though such travel may seem ordinary now, at the time it may have been an imaginative ideal, reflecting a yearning for freedom.
- Author
- Sosei Hoshi
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- On Yoshino River’s bank, kerria blossoms— in the blowing wind, even their reflection below has faded away.
- Where frogs are crying in Ide, the kerria blooms have already fallen; had I but known before, I would have seen them at their height.
- Since spring has come, time and months have passed away like arrows shot forth— so it seems to me, how swiftly they have gone.
- Since there are no blooms left for it to hold with song, the warbler too, in the end, it seems, has grown weary of its cry.