classic waka stream

わが庵は三輪の山もと恋しくは
とぶらひ来ませ杉立てる門
Roma-ji

Waga io wa miwa no yamamoto koishiku wa toburai kimase sugi tateru kado

English Translation
My humble hermitage
lies at the foot of Miwa;
if you long for me,
come and visit me, and look
for the gate where cedars stand.
Meaning
My hut is at the foot of Mount Miwa. If you long for me, come and visit; look for the gate where the cedars stand.
Commentary
Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Poems II 982

Headnote: "Topic unknown"
The dweller in a hut at the foot of Mount Miwa invites the beloved to come if they feel longing, using the gate where cedars stand as a landmark. The cedars of Mount Miwa were famous as signs of the sacred mountain, and using them to mark a gate gives the poem its charm.
This poem is also said to be a divine utterance of the god of Miwa, and it was later quoted in the Noh play Miwa. It shares the opening line "my hermitage" with the monk Kisen's poem 983, so two poems telling where a hut lies are set side by side.
The author is recorded as anonymous, and the name has not come down to us.

The first line, "my humble hermitage," is the same opening as the next poem.
The second line, "lies at the foot of Miwa," gives the location, ending on a noun; the poem breaks here.
The third line, "if you long for me," is a conditional.
The fourth line, "come and visit me," uses mase, the imperative of the honorific auxiliary masu.
The last line, "the gate where cedars stand," uses ru, the attributive of the continuative ri, and ends on a noun.
Author
Unknown Poet
Source
Kokin Wakashu
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