今朝の嵐寒くもあるかなあしひきの
山かきくもり雪ぞ降るらし
山かきくもり雪ぞ降るらし
- Roma-ji
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Kesa no arashi samuku mo aru kana ashihiki no yama kakikumori yuki zo fururashi
- English Translation
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This morning's storm wind—
how cold indeed it is!
In the foot-wearying
mountains clouded over
snow, it seems, is falling
- Meaning
- How cold this morning's storm wind is! Up in the mountains, clouded over, snow must be falling.
- Commentary
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Book Eight Winter Poems 466
Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet exclaims at the cold of this morning's storm wind and infers that the mountains are clouded over and snow is falling there. From the cold of the wind felt on the body, the poem infers the snow of unseen mountains.
Following the preceding poem, which imagined Yoshino's snow from the showers of the capital, this poem infers snow on the mountains from the storm's cold, so that poems imagining distant snow from nearby weather stand together.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us.
The first line, "Kesa no arashi," has an extra syllable and means "this morning's storm wind."
The second line, "samuku mo aru kana," has an extra syllable, with "kana" an exclamatory particle: "how cold it is!" The poem pauses here.
The third line, "ashihiki no," is a pillow word modifying "yama," mountain.
The fourth line, "yama kakikumori," means "the mountains clouded over."
In the last line, "rashi" is an auxiliary of inference based on evidence: from the cold of the wind, the poet infers that snow is falling. It closes the line in answer to the particle "zo."
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Gosen Wakashu
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