雲のうへに思ひのぼれる心には
千ひろの底もはるかにぞ見る
千ひろの底もはるかにぞ見る
- Roma-ji
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Kumo no ue ni omoinoboreru kokoro ni wa
chihiro no soko mo haruka ni zo miru - English Translation
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To a heart that would
rise in longing to the realm
above the clouds, the
thousand-fathom deep itself
is a thing seen far below
- Meaning
- To a heart that would rise into the realm above the clouds, even the thousand-fathom deep is seen far below.
- Commentary
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Part One: Eawase
Answering Hei no Naishi's poem, Dainy no Suke of the right spoke this one. Josanmi seems to have told of a low-born heroine rising to the court, and she boasts of that loftiness set against the depth of the sea of Ise. This exchange too went undecided, and Fujitsubo followed with a poem in the manner of a verdict.
"Above the clouds" is the court, where the Josanmi heroine rises. "Omoinoboreru" is to aspire high. "The thousand-fathom deep" takes up the sea and depth of the other poem and places that depth below. "Seen far off" is seen far beneath. Where the other boasted of the sea's depth, this sets height against it, and the exchange is built on the contrast of deep and high.
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
- Genji Monogatari
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Ise no umi no fukaki kokoro o tadorazute
furinishi ato to nami ya ketsubeki - Next Poem
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Ise o no ama no na o ya shizumemu