名残をば庭の浅茅にとどめ置きて
誰ゆゑ君が住みうかれけむ
誰ゆゑ君が住みうかれけむ
- Roma-ji
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Nagori o ba niwa no asaji ni todomeokite tare yue kimi ga sumiukarekemu
- English Translation
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Leaving your remnants
here among the garden's reeds,
still lingering on,
for whose sake, then, did you drift
away from where you once lived?
- Meaning
- Leaving your remnants behind in the cogon grass of the garden, for whose sake did you wander away from the home where you once lived?
- Commentary
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Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 1290
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown."
This is the sixth and last poem of the sequence on love unvisited in a neglected dwelling. Leaving your remnants in the cogon grass of the garden, the speaker asks, for whose sake did you drift away from this home? As with the preceding poem, the headnote gives no topic, and the circumstances are not recorded.
The author, "Hokkyō Gyōhen," was a priest who held the clerical rank of hokkyō. Hokkyō is the clerical rank next below hōgen.
The first line, "nagori o ba," means "the remnants"; "o ba" singles out the object with emphasis.
The second line, "niwa no asaji ni," like "asaji ga sue" in 1286, names a grass of the neglected garden. Here too it uses the "niwa no," of the garden, repeated throughout the sequence.
The third line, "todomeokite," has six syllables, one more than the norm, and means "leaving them behind."
The fourth line, "tare yue kimi ga," means "for whose sake did you." It asks after the one who left for someone other than the speaker.
In the last line, "sumiukarekemu," "sumiukaru" means "to leave one's home and wander," and "kemu" conjectures a past cause. Where the preceding poems were sung by one who waits for visits, this poem questions the one who has left the home altogether, closing the sequence on neglected dwellings.
- Author
- Gyōhen
- Source
- Shin Kokin Wakashu
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