ひさかたの雨の降る日を我が門に
蓑笠着ずて来る人や誰れ
蓑笠着ずて来る人や誰れ
- Roma-ji
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Hisakata no ame no furu hi o waga kado ni minokasa kizute keru hito ya tare
- English Translation
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On a day like this
when rain falls from the far skies,
who is it comes
to my gate without a hat,
without a straw raincoat
- Meaning
- On a day of rain from the far heavens, who is this coming to my gate with neither straw raincoat nor hat?
- Commentary
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Book Twelve Dialogue Poems 3125
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Dialogue Poems"
A woman, pretending not to know, asks who has come to her gate on a rainy day with neither raincoat nor hat. With the man's reply in the next poem it forms a question-and-answer pair, full of teasing affection.
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, "hisakata no," is a pillow word for "ame," rain.
Line two, "ame no furu hi o," means "on a day when the rain falls."
Line three, "waga kado ni," means "to my gate."
Line four, "minokasa kizute," means "wearing neither straw raincoat nor hat."
Line five, "keru hito ya tare," means "who is it that comes?", read "keru hito ya tare" in the kana line. It echoes the last line of poem 3101 in this book, "aeru ko ya tare."
- Author
- Unknown
- Source
- Manyoshu
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