夕されば衣手寒し高松の
山の木ごとに雪ぞ降りたる
山の木ごとに雪ぞ降りたる
- Roma-ji
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Yū sareba koromode samushi takamatsu no yama no ki goto ni yuki zo furitaru
- English Translation
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When the evening comes,
cold indeed my sleeves have grown;
at Takamatsu,
on the mountain, every tree
has the snow come settling on.
- Meaning
- When evening comes, my sleeves grow cold—on every tree on the mountain of Takamatsu, snow has fallen.
- Commentary
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Book Ten Winter Miscellaneous Poems 2319
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Snow"
This poem, feeling the cold on the sleeves at evening, sees snow settled on every tree on the mountain of Takamatsu. The cold felt on the body and the snowscape before the eyes overlap, depicting a winter dusk. The mountain of Takamatsu, sung in 2233 and elsewhere in the autumn poems, is sung in the winter poems as a snowy mountain.
The first line, "when evening comes," names the time.
In the second line, "koromode samushi," "koromode" means sleeves: my sleeves are cold. The poem breaks here.
The third line, "of Takamatsu," is thought to be Takamato.
The fourth line, "on every tree of the mountain," names the extent.
In the last line, "yuki zo furitaru," "zo" is an emphatic particle in kakari-musubi with the attributive "taru."
- Source
- Manyoshu
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