鳥の音も聞こえぬ山と思ひしを
世の憂きことは訪ね来にけり
世の憂きことは訪ね来にけり
- Roma-ji
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Tori no ne mo kikoenu yama to omoishi o
yo no uki koto wa tazune kinikeri - English Translation
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I had thought these hills
a place where not even the
voice of a bird comes,
and yet the bitterness of
the world has sought me out here
- Meaning
- I had thought these hills a place where not even a bird's voice comes, and yet the bitterness of the world has sought me out here.
- Commentary
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Part Three: Agemaki
Oigimi's reply. She had supposed that at Uji, far from other people, she would be free of the world's troubles, and finds that she is not. Calling his suit itself "the bitterness of the world," she makes her refusal plain.
"Hills where not even a bird's voice comes" is the set way of speaking of mountains no one enters, and answers the voices of his poem. Yo no uki koto is the vexation of dealings between men and women. She pulls his graceful manner straight back into hard fact, and her resolve to keep her father's charge is concentrated in the short poem.
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
- Genji Monogatari
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