おのれゆゑ罵らえて居れば青馬の
面高夫駄に乗りて来べしや
面高夫駄に乗りて来べしや
- Roma-ji
-
Onore yue noraete oreba aouma no omotaka buda ni norite kubeshi ya
- English Translation
-
It's because of you
that I'm scolded so, and yet
on a dark-gray horse,
a nose-in-the-air nag,
should you come riding here
- Meaning
- I am being scolded because of you, and yet you come riding here on a dark-gray packhorse with its nose held high; how could you?
- Commentary
-
Book Twelve Expressing Thoughts through Things 3098
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing Thoughts through Things"
A woman scolds her lover for coming on a conspicuous horse while she is being reproached for their love. Continuing the horses of the two preceding poems, its tone of reproach mixed with humor is distinctive.
Princess Taki was a daughter of Emperor Tenmu, her name also written as Takki. According to the left note, which records a tradition handed down by Heguri no Fumiya no Asomi Masuhito, she composed this poem when she was censured for secretly marrying Prince Takayasu, and Prince Takayasu was demoted to governor of Iyo because of it. The princess's name in the note has long been read as Princess Ki, but here the reading follows Yoshinaga Noboru's theory, emending the text to give Princess Taki.
Prince Takayasu became governor of Iyo in the third year of Yōrō and was later granted the surname Ōhara no Mahito.
Line one, "onore yue," means "because of you," pointing at the man.
Line two, "noraete oreba," means "while I am being scolded."
Line three, "aouma no," means "of a blue-black horse."
Line four, "omotaka buda ni," means "on a packhorse holding its face high," read "omotaka buda" in the kana line.
Line five, "norite kubeshi ya," is a rhetorical question, "should you come riding?", reproaching a man who visits in so conspicuous a way.
- Author
- Princess Taki
- Source
- Manyoshu
- Prev Poem
-
Sahinokuma Hinokumagawa ni uma todome uma ni mizu kae ware yoso ni mimu
- Next Poem
-
Murasaki o kusa to wakuwaku fusu shika no no wa koto ni shite kokoro wa oyaji