岩の上にいかかる雲のかのまづく
人ぞおたはふいざ寝しめとら
人ぞおたはふいざ寝しめとら
- Roma-ji
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Iwa no e ni ikakaru kumo no kanomazuku hito zo otawau iza neshime tora
- English Translation
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On the rocks above
where the clouds come clinging close,
thunder-rumbling so,
all the people raise their din—
come, let us lie down to sleep.
- Meaning
- Like the clouds clinging to the rocks, people are rumbling and clamoring—come now, let us go to bed.
- Commentary
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Book Fourteen Azuma Poems 3518
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Sōmon (Love Exchanges)"
As clouds cling to the rocks, people are making a commotion, but never mind, the singer says, let us lie together. Its second half is almost the same as 3409 from Kōzuke, and it seems a variant of the same folk song.
It is one of the love exchanges and the ninth in the cloud sequence. Compared with 3409, "Ikahoro ni amakumo itsugi kanumazuku hito to otawau iza neshime tora," only the scene of the first half has been changed.
The poet is unknown. The Azuma uta are thought to have been sung among the people of the eastern provinces, and they are marked by plain, open-hearted expression mixed with local dialect.
First line, "iwa no e ni": "On the rocks"; in 3409 it is "Ikahoro ni."
Second line, "ikakaru kumo no": "I" is a prefix: clouds hanging on the rocks. The first two lines form a preface.
Third line, "kanomazuku": An obscure word, thought to be the same as "kanumazuku" in 3409.
Fourth line, "hito zo otawau": "Otawau" is thought to mean to clamor, with "zo" a binding particle.
Final line, "iza neshime tora": The same last line as in 3409: come, let us sleep.
- Source
- Manyoshu
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