この河にもみぢ葉流る奥山の
雪げの水ぞ今まさるらし
雪げの水ぞ今まさるらし
- Roma-ji
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Kono kawa ni momijiba nagaru okuyama no
yukige no mizu zo ima masarurashi - English Translation
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even in this stream
crimson leaves are flowing down—
from the deep mountains
the water from melting snow
must now have greatly swelled
- Meaning
- Even in this river crimson leaves are flowing—the waters from melting snow in the deep mountains must now have grown stronger.
- Commentary
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Book Six Winter Poems
The poet is struck with surprise to see autumn leaves still flowing, though their season should have passed, and reflects on the cause.
The increased flow is attributed to snowmelt from the deep mountains. Although “water from melting snow” often suggests early spring, here it can be understood as winter snow that does not settle but melts and runs off, carrying the lingering leaves with it.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- 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
- my old dwelling lies so near to Mount Yoshino— not even a day passes without falling snow gracing it from the heavens
- at my humble dwelling snow falls thick and deep, and now no path can be seen— for there is no one at all to come and tread a way here