巻向の穴師の山の山人と
人も見るがに山かづらせよ
人も見るがに山かづらせよ
- Roma-ji
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Makimoku no anashi no yama no yamabito to hito mo miru gani yamakazura seyo
- English Translation
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Of Makimuku,
upon Mount Anashi,
as a mountain man
so that others see you so,
wear the mountain vine in your hair.
- Meaning
- Wreathe your hair with mountain vine, so that people will take you for a mountain man of Anashi in Makimuku.
- Commentary
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Book Twenty Poems of the Bureau of Court Song 1076
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Kagura Songs: Torimono Song"
The song calls on the dancer to deck his hair with mountain vine so that he will look like a mountain man come down from Mount Anashi. It takes the vine torimono as its theme and reflects the kagura idea of a divine visitor arriving from the mountains. No author is recorded.
Torimono songs are kagura songs sung on the hand-held objects that dancers carried in the sacred dance, such as sakaki branches, bows, ladles and vines. Poems 1074 through 1079 form this group of six.
The first line, "of Makimuku," names a district of Yamato north of Mount Miwa, in today's Sakurai City, Nara.
The second line, "of Mount Anashi," names the peak in Makimuku where the Anashi Hyōzu shrine stands; repeated no particles pile up the place names.
The third line, "a mountain man," means one who lives in the hills and in kagura suggests a divine visitor from the mountains. The word yama recurs from the second line and returns in yamakazura of the last line.
The fourth line, "so that others see you so," uses gani to express purpose or degree.
The last line, "wear the mountain vine," is an imperative addressed to the dancer. The next poem, 1077, also sings of masaki vine, so the vine torimono songs continue.
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
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