ゆふされば衣手さむしみよしのの
吉野の山にみ雪ふるらし
吉野の山にみ雪ふるらし
- Roma-ji
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Yū sareba koromode samushi Miyoshino no
Yoshino no yama ni miyuki fururashi - English Translation
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as evening falls on
my sleeves grow cold with the chill—
in fair Yoshino
upon the mountain slopes
snow must be falling now
- Meaning
- As evening falls, even my sleeves grow cold—surely on Mount Yoshino the snow must now be falling.
- Commentary
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Book Six Winter Poems
As the day fades, the cold deepens, and from that growing chill the poet imagines that snow must be falling in the mountains.
Mount Yoshino lies in Nara, extending southward, and has long been known as a place of scenic beauty.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- in a mountain village winter deepens the loneliness— for when I think on it no people come, and even the grasses wither away
- in the vast open sky the moonlight falls so pure— that the water below which held its shining image was the first of all to freeze
- from this moment on may it go on falling still— in my humble yard pressing down the silver grass the white snow that has begun
- the falling snow must be melting even as it falls— for from the mountain the sound of rushing waters grows ever louder now