時雨降る冬の木の葉の乾かずぞ
物思ふ人の袖はありける
物思ふ人の袖はありける
- Roma-ji
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Shigure furu fuyu no konoha no kawakazu zo monoomou hito no sode wa arikeru
- English Translation
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As the winter leaves
where the chill showers fall
never have a chance to dry,
so the sleeves of one who broods
in longing always stay
- Meaning
- Like the leaves of winter on which the cold showers keep falling, the sleeves of one lost in longing never dry.
- Commentary
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Book Eleven Love Poems I 1054
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown."
This is the seventh poem of the sequence on love that cannot meet, sung through places and things. As winter leaves wet with showers never dry, the sleeves of one who broods in love are never dry. The headnote gives no topic, and the circumstances of composition are not recorded.
The author, "Anonymous," continues from the preceding poem and indicates a poem whose author's name has not come down to us.
The first line, "shigure furu," means "where the showers fall."
The second line, "fuyu no konoha no," means "of the winter leaves," and the first two lines lead on as a figure of leaves wet and never dry.
In the third line, the emphatic "zo" is resolved by "keru" in the last line.
The fourth line, "monoomou hito no," means "of one who broods in love."
The last line, "sode wa arikeru," means "such are the sleeves." Like "kawaku toki naki" in 1040, Tsurayuki's poem, it sings of sleeves that never dry, and the showers of 1028 through 1030 appear here once more.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Shin Kokin Wakashu
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