雲晴れてのちも時雨るる柴の戸や
山風払ふ松の下露
山風払ふ松の下露
- Roma-ji
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Kumo harete nochi mo shigururu shiba no to ya yamakaze harau matsu no shitatsuyu
- English Translation
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Clouds have cleared, and still
winter showers fall
at the brushwood door—
dew beneath the pines
swept down by mountain wind
- Meaning
- Even after the clouds have cleared, showers still fall at my brushwood door—it is the dew on the lower boughs of the pines, swept down by the mountain wind.
- Commentary
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Book Six Winter Poems 573
Headnote: "On the theme 'Winter Showers at a Mountain Dwelling.'"
This is the fourth poem of the winter-showers sequence. The showers that fall at the brushwood door even after the clouds have cleared turn out to be dew on the pines, swept down by the mountain wind. According to the headnote, it was composed on the topic "Winter Showers at a Mountain Dwelling."
The author, "Fujiwara no Takanobu Ason," is Fujiwara no Takanobu. A son of Fujiwara no Tametsune (Jakuchō), his mother was Bifukumon'in no Kaga, making him the elder half-brother of Fujiwara no Teika through their mother. He was renowned as a master of nise-e, realistic portraiture.
The scene is early winter after the clouds have cleared, and the place is a mountain dwelling among pines.
The direct occasion is the topic "Winter Showers at a Mountain Dwelling."
The first line, "kumo harete," means "the clouds having cleared," indicating that the shower clouds have passed.
The second line, "nochi mo shigururu," means "showers still fall afterward." It takes up the same verb as "ika ni shigururu" in the preceding poem and sings of the same wonder of showers falling in clear weather.
The third line, "shiba no to ya," means "ah, the brushwood door," with "ya" as an exclamation. It repeats the first line of the preceding poem, "shiba no to ni," and indicates the "mountain dwelling" of the topic. The poem breaks after the third line.
The fourth line, "yamakaze harau," means "swept down by the wind from the mountain."
The last line, "matsu no shitatsuyu," closes on a noun, revealing what seemed to be showers. Where the preceding poem left open its question of why showers fell in sunshine, this poem offers an answer by likening to showers the dew swept by the wind from the pine boughs, so that the two are set side by side like question and answer.
- Author
- Fujiwara no Takanobu
- Source
- Shin Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- In the Godless Month the leaves of all the trees have scattered, every one, and in the garden now the sound of wind is heard
- On the brushwood door the light of the setting sun still falls, and yet why do the winter showers fall on this mountainside?
- In the Godless Month the winter showers must be falling; on Mount Saho the masaki vine deepens in its color
- In the withering wind's roar I cannot tell apart the winter showers, and think my sleeves are wet from the crimson leaves