涙のみ霧りふたがれる山里は
籬に鹿ぞ諸声に鳴く
籬に鹿ぞ諸声に鳴く
- Roma-ji
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Namida nomi kirifutagareru yamazato wa
magaki ni shika zo morogoe ni naku - English Translation
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In this mountain place
where nothing but tears close in
like a standing mist,
at the hedge the deer as well
lift their voices all as one
- Meaning
- In this mountain place, where nothing but tears closes in like mist, the deer at the hedge lift their voices with ours.
- Commentary
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Part Three: Shiigamoto
The reply to Niou's condolence. It should have fallen to Naka no Kimi, but her sister wrote for her while she was sunk in grief. Oigimi conveys the state of the house just after their father's death through the crying of the deer. Niou answered again, and the exchange between capital and mountain village continued.
Kirifutagaru is mist closing in and shutting off the view, said here of eyes blinded by tears. Magaki is a hedge woven of bamboo or brushwood. Morogoe ni naku is to cry together, and naku carries naku, to weep. She takes the deer he had used and turns them into creatures weeping along with the sisters, so that grief becomes the landscape itself.
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
- Genji Monogatari
- Other
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- In what age to come could I ever part from it— the hut of grass where we have bound between us now a promise for long ages
- How must it be now, the mountain village in fall where the stag bells out— this evening, when the dew lies heavy on the small hagi
- The call of a deer that has lost its companion in the morning mist— could anyone hear it as one hears the ordinary?
- Seeing how the low reeds have altered in colour, I think of your sleeves, and how they must be worn thin in the dark dye of mourning