三諸つく三輪山見れば隠口の
泊瀬の桧原思ほゆるかも
泊瀬の桧原思ほゆるかも
- Roma-ji
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Mimoro tsuku miwayama mireba komoriku no hatsuse no hibara omōyuru kamo
- English Translation
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When I gaze upon
Miwa, sacred god-dwelling hill,
to hidden Hatsuse's
forests of cypress trees
my thoughts go wandering on
- Meaning
- When I look on Mount Miwa, where the god is enshrined, my thoughts turn of themselves to the cypress forests of Hatsuse among the hidden hills.
- Commentary
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Book Seven Miscellaneous Poems 1095
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Mountains"
Gazing at Mount Miwa, the poet finds the cypress forests of Hatsuse, lying beyond it, rising in his mind. His thoughts move from the sacred mountain to the neighboring holy land, and the poem has the air of praising the sacred scenery of the Yamato mountains.
Within the group on mountains, it answers the "cypress hills of Makimuku" of poem 1092 in this book with the "cypress forests of Hatsuse," so that the arrangement widens its view from Mount Miwa to Makimuku in the north and Hatsuse in the east. The poet is unknown.
The first line, "When I gaze upon," begins with "mimoro tsuku," meaning to set up a place for worshipping the god, a pillow word for Mount Miwa.
The second line, "Miwa, sacred god-dwelling hill," is a conditional of fact: "when I look at Mount Miwa."
The third line uses "komoriku," a land enclosed by mountains, as a pillow word for "Hatsuse."
The fourth line, "forests of cypress trees," refers to the cypress woods of Hatsuse. Like the "cypress hills" of poem 1092, it treats a cypress forest as a famous place.
The final line, "my thoughts go wandering on," uses the spontaneous "omōyu": the scene rises unbidden in the mind.
- Source
- Manyoshu
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