朝霧のたなびく小野の萩の花
今か散るらむいまだ飽かなくに
今か散るらむいまだ飽かなくに
- Roma-ji
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Asagiri no tanabiku ono no hagi no hana ima ka chiruramu imada akanaku ni
- English Translation
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Where the morning mist
trails across the little moor,
bush clover blossoms—
are they scattering now, perhaps?
I have not yet had my fill.
- Meaning
- The bush clover in the meadow where the morning mist trails—is it scattering now? I have not yet had my fill of it.
- Commentary
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Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2118
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Flowers"
This poem worries that the bush clover of the meadow where the morning mist trails may be scattering even now. Regret at clover not yet fully admired falling is packed into "imada akanaku ni." Like 1867 in the spring poems, which imagined the cherry of Mount Abo falling today too, it imagines flowers falling in a place unseen.
The first line, "of the morning mist," names the mist.
In the second line, "tanabiku ono no," "ono" means field, with "o" as a prefix.
The third line, "the bush clover blossoms," is the subject.
In the fourth line, "ima ka chiruramu," "ka" is an interrogative particle in kakari-musubi with the attributive "ramu." The poem breaks here.
In the last line, "imada akanaku ni," "naku ni" is a nominalized negative with "ni": though I have not yet had my fill. The line is hypermetric.
- Source
- Manyoshu
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