冬過ぎて春来るらし朝日さす
春日の山に霞たなびく
春日の山に霞たなびく
- Roma-ji
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Fuyu sugite haru kitarurashi asahi sasu kasuga no yama ni kasumi tanabiku
- English Translation
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Winter now is past
and spring has come, so it seems;
with the morning sun
on Kasuga's mountain slopes
the haze is trailing along.
- Meaning
- Winter has passed and spring seems to have come: on Mount Kasuga, bright with the morning sun, the haze is trailing.
- Commentary
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Book Ten Spring Miscellaneous Poems 1844
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Haze"
Seeing the haze trailing over Mount Kasuga in the morning sun, the poet infers that winter has passed and spring has come. The pairing of bright morning sun and haze expresses the fresh heart that greets a new season. Whereas 1812 at the head of the book inferred spring from the evening haze on Mount Kagu, this poem infers it from the morning haze on Mount Kasuga, contrasting morning with evening and Kasuga with Kagu.
The first line, "winter has passed," clearly marks the turning of the season.
In the second line, "haru kitarurashi," "rashi" marks grounded inference, and the poem breaks here. It uses the same turn of phrase as Empress Jitō's "spring has passed and summer seems to have come" in Book One, 28.
The third line, "where the morning sun shines," shows a morning scene in contrast to "on this evening" in 1812.
The fourth line, "on Mount Kasuga," is the same mountain as in the preceding poem, the setting of the haze group.
The last line, "the haze trails," is the same as the phrase in the Hitomaro Collection group beginning with 1812, closing with the scene that grounds the inference.
- Source
- Manyoshu
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