今さらに住み憂しとてもいかがせん
灘の塩屋の夕暮の空
灘の塩屋の夕暮の空
- Roma-ji
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Imasara ni sumiushi tote mo ikaga sen nada no shioya no yūgure no sora
- English Translation
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Now, after so long,
though I find it hard to live here,
what is there to do?
Above the salt huts of the shore,
the sky at the close of day.
- Meaning
- Even if I find it hard to live here now, what can I do? Only the evening sky over the salt huts on the shore.
- Commentary
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Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1605
Headnote: "On the spirit of the seashore."
This is the fourth poem of the sequence on seaside bays. Even if the place is hard to live in, nothing can be done about it now, and there is only the evening sky over the salt huts of the shore. According to the headnote, it was composed with the seashore as its topic.
The author, "Fujiwara no Hideyoshi," was a guard in the service of Retired Emperor Go-Toba, whose poetic talent the retired emperor recognized. He took holy orders after the Jōkyū Disturbance.
The first line, "imasara ni," means "now, after all this time," showing that the speaker has long lived in this place.
The second line, "sumiushi tote mo," means "even if it is hard to live here."
The third line, "ikaga sen," is a rhetorical question, "what can be done?" The poem breaks here after the third line.
The fourth line, "nada no shioya no," means "of the salt huts on the shore." Like "ashi no ya no nada no shioyaki" in 1590 in this book, it takes up the scene of salt-burning on the shore.
The last line, "yūgure no sora," ends in a noun, closing by entrusting the speaker's feelings to the evening sky gazed on with the weariness of living there.
- Author
- Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
- Source
- Shin Kokin Wakashu
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