More surely than snow
that falls in confusion and
freezes at the shore,
it is I who shall melt out
of the middle of the sky
- Meaning
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More surely than the snow that falls in confusion and freezes at the water's edge, it is I who shall melt away in mid-air.
- Commentary
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Part Three: Ukifune
Ukifune's reply to his poem on the snow. Sooner than the snow that freezes at the water's edge, she says, she will melt away in mid-air. Her position, fixed to neither Kaoru nor Niou, is put as snow that vanishes without ever reaching the ground, and it anticipates the woman who will later set her mind on drowning. After these two days events move quickly toward the break.
Furimidare is snow falling in disorder. Nakazora is the middle of the sky, the state of hanging between with nothing settled. Kenu beki is likely to vanish, laying the melting of snow over her own death. Taking up his migiwa, she sets snow that settles against snow that does not, and the whole of her homelessness is gathered into one word.
- Author
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Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
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Genji Monogatari
- Other
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