白雪のふりしく時はみよしのの
山した風に花ぞ散りける
山した風に花ぞ散りける
- Roma-ji
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Shirayuki no furishiku toki wa Miyoshino no
yamashitakaze ni hana zo chirikeru - English Translation
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When white snow falls
thick and without cease, then in
fair Yoshino's hills
by the wind from down the slopes
flowers are scattered away
- Meaning
- When the white snow falls thick and without cease, it seems as though flowers are being scattered by the wind blowing down from the slopes of Yoshino Mountain.
- Commentary
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Book Seven: Poems of Celebration
A winter poem written on a folding screen placed behind the seats at the fortieth birthday celebration banquet of Fujiwara no Sadakuni, the Right Captain, where paintings of the four seasons were depicted.
The poem portrays falling snow as if it were flower petals scattered through the air by the strong wind descending from the mountains.
- Author
- Ki no Tsurayuki
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- the plovers are calling mist rises on the Saho River— it must be so now even the leaves upon the hills grow deeper in their autumn hues
- autumn has come now yet unchanged in hue remains Mount Tokiwa still— so the wind must borrow leaves of scarlet from distant hills
- From Kasuga's mount high-peaked, the rising sun— never veiled by clouds, shall without a clouded hour shine upon the world, it seems
- Though we part and go, if on Inaba's mountain peaks the pine trees grow, and I should hear that you still wait, I shall return even now