霰降る深山の里は朝夕に
眺むる空もかきくらしつつ
眺むる空もかきくらしつつ
- Roma-ji
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Arare furu miyama no sato wa asayū ni
nagamuru sora mo kakikurashitsutsu - English Translation
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Here in the deep hills,
where the hail comes down, morning
and evening alike,
the sky that I look upon
goes on darkening over
- Meaning
- Here in the deep hills where the hail comes down, morning and evening alike, the sky I look on goes on darkening.
- Commentary
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Part Three: Agemaki
Naka no Kimi's reply. Against the winter rain of the capital she sets hail and deep hills, and so marks the distance between them without pressing it. The year closed while she went on waiting, and Oigimi's illness grew worse.
Arare, hail, gives a harsher mountain weather than his shigure. Kakikurasu is both the sky darkening and the eyes darkening with tears. She takes his "the same sky" and answers that hers is always clouded, so that the gap between capital and Uji is told through a difference of weather.
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
- Genji Monogatari
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