沖つ波辺波の来寄る佐太の浦の
このさだ過ぎて後恋ひむかも
このさだ過ぎて後恋ひむかも
- Roma-ji
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Okitsunami henami no kiyoru Sada no ura no kono sada sugite nochi koimu kamo
- English Translation
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Where the offshore waves
and the shore waves wash in
on Sada Bay,
once this season's "sada" has passed,
will I long for you hereafter
- Meaning
- Like Sada Bay, where waves roll in from offshore and along the shore, once this time, this "sada," has passed, will I find myself longing for you?
- Commentary
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Book Twelve Thoughts Arising on Journeys 3160
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Thoughts Arising on Journeys"
Leading from the name of Sada Bay to "sada," a time or season, the poet foresees longing once this time has passed. The feeling of parting from someone grown close on the journey is expressed through wordplay on the place name.
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, "okitsunami," means "the waves offshore."
Line two, "henami no kiyoru," means "where the shore waves wash in."
Line three, "Sada no ura no," means "of Sada Bay," a hypermetric line of six syllables, and the lines up to here form an introduction leading by sound to "sada." The same place appears in poem 3029 in this book.
Line four, "kono sada sugite," means "once this time has passed," "sada" meaning a time or occasion.
Line five, "nochi koimu kamo," means "will I long for you later?", the same final line as poem 3141 in this book.
- Author
- Unknown
- Source
- Manyoshu
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