目に見えぬ風に心をたぐへつつ
やらば霞の別れこそせめ
やらば霞の別れこそせめ
- Roma-ji
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Me ni mienu kaze ni kokoro o taguetsutsu yaraba kasumi no wakare koso seme
- English Translation
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To the unseen wind
I will join my heart and send it
on its way to you—
then, like the spring haze, I
would make my parting so
- Meaning
- If I send my heart along with the invisible wind, then I will part from you as the haze does, drifting away with the breeze.
- Commentary
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Book Nineteen Parting Poems 1343
Headnote: "Reply."
Ise says that if she sends her heart along with the unseen wind, she will make a parting like that of the haze. Answering the preceding poem's lament that none but the wind would call, she seems to say that she will entrust her heart to the invisible wind and part like the haze that drifts off with it.
It is Ise's reply to the preceding poem.
The poet, Ise, was a daughter of Fujiwara no Tsugukage, Governor of Ise, and served Fujiwara no Onshi, consort of Emperor Uda. She received the emperor's favor and later bore Nakatsukasa to Prince Atsuyoshi. One of the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals, she is represented in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu by "Naniwagata mijikaki ashi no fushi no ma mo."
The first line, "Me ni mienu," means "unseen."
The second line, "kaze ni kokoro o," means "my heart to the wind," taking up "kaze yori hoka ni" in the fourth line of the preceding poem.
The third line, "taguetsutsu," means "joining it," with "tsutsu" continuation.
The fourth line, "yaraba kasumi no," means "if I send it, then the haze's," taking up "harugasumi" in the preceding poem's first line.
The last line, "wakare koso seme," means "such a parting I would make," with "koso" closed by the realis "me."
- Author
- Ise
- Source
- Gosen Wakashu
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Harugasumi hakanaku tachite wakaru tomo kaze yori hoka ni tare ka tou beki
- Next Poem
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Kimi ga yo wa Tsuru no kōri ni aete kine sadame naki yo no utagai mo naku