殺目山行き返り道の朝霞
ほのかにだにや妹に逢はざらむ
ほのかにだにや妹に逢はざらむ
- Roma-ji
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Kirimeyama yukikaeriji no asagasumi honoka ni dani ya imo ni awazaramu
- English Translation
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On Mount Kirime,
along the road that comes and goes,
the morning haze;
even faintly as that haze,
can I not meet my love
- Meaning
- Like the morning haze on the road that comes and goes over Mount Kirime, can I not meet my beloved even faintly?
- Commentary
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Book Twelve Expressing Thoughts through Things 3037
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing Thoughts through Things"
Using the morning haze on the road over Mount Kirime as an introduction, the poet laments not being able to meet the beloved even faintly. Following the mist poems with haze, it conveys the loneliness of not being able to hope even for a fleeting meeting.
The poet is unknown. Book Twelve, titled the second part of "Love Poems Exchanged Old and New," gathers love poems by people whose names have not come down to us, arranged by category.
Line one, "Kirimeyama," is thought to be a mountain in Wakayama Prefecture.
Line two, "yukikaeriji no," means "of the road that comes and goes," a hypermetric line of eight syllables.
Line three, "asagasumi," means "morning haze," and the lines up to here form an introduction leading to "honoka ni," faintly.
Line four, "honoka ni dani ya," means "even faintly?", with "ya" a question concluded by the attributive "mu" in line five.
Line five, "imo ni awazaramu," means "will I not meet her?"
- Author
- Unknown
- Source
- Manyoshu
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