われながら思ふかものをとばかりに
袖にしぐるる庭の松風
袖にしぐるる庭の松風
- Roma-ji
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Warenagara omou ka mono o to bakari ni sode ni shigururu niwa no matsukaze
- English Translation
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Even to myself,
"Am I lost in brooding thoughts?"
it seems, so it is—
on my sleeves the showers fall,
the pine wind in the garden.
- Meaning
- So much that I wonder whether I myself am lost in brooding, the wind in the garden pines brings showers of tears onto my sleeves.
- Commentary
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Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1638
Headnote: "On the topic 'Wind in the Pines,' at the Kasuga Poetry Contest."
This is a single poem on the wind in the garden pines, taking up the pine by the hut of the preceding poem. So much that the poet wonders whether he is lost in brooding, the wind in the garden pines brings showers of tears to his sleeves. According to the headnote, it was composed on the topic "Wind in the Pines" at the Kasuga Poetry Contest.
The author, "Ariie Ason," was a son of Fujiwara no Shigeie and one of the compilers of the Shin Kokinshū.
The Kasuga Poetry Contest was a poetry contest dedicated to the Kasuga Shrine.
The first line, "warenagara," means "though it is about myself."
The second line, "omou ka mono o," means "am I brooding?" It reverses the order of "mono omou," "to brood," inserting the questioning "ka."
The third line, "to bakari ni," means "so much that I think so."
The fourth line, "sode ni shigururu," means "showers fall on my sleeves," a figure for being wet with tears. The sound of the wind in the pines is heard as the sound of showers.
The last line, "niwa no matsukaze," ends in a noun, revealing at the close what draws the tears. Taking up "yado no matsu" of the preceding poem, it sings of the wind blowing in the garden pines.
- Author
- Fujiwara no Ariie
- Source
- Shin Kokin Wakashu
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