浅茅原主なき宿の桜花
心やすくや風に散るらん
心やすくや風に散るらん
- Roma-ji
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Asajihara nushi naki yado no sakurabana kokoroyasuku ya kaze ni chiruran
- English Translation
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Where the cogon grows,
at the house without a master,
O cherry blossoms,
is it with an easy heart
that you scatter on the wind?
- Meaning
- Cherry blossoms of this masterless house overgrown with cogon grass, do you scatter in the wind with easy hearts?
- Commentary
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Book One Spring Poems 62
Headnote: "On seeing cherries blooming in profusion at a house fallen into ruin where no one lived"
Seeing cherries blooming in profusion at a ruined house without a master, the poet wonders whether, with no one to grieve for them, they scatter in the wind with easy hearts. The loneliness of the abandoned house seeps through the ease of flowers no one mourns. According to the headnote, it was composed on seeing cherries blooming wildly at a house fallen into ruin where no one lived.
The priest Egyō was a monk of the mid-Heian period, said to have served as a lecturer in Harima Province. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Later Immortal Poets.
First line, "asajihara," is a field overgrown with low cogon grass, signifying the ruined house.
Second line, "nushi naki yado no," means "of a house without a master." It contrasts with the garden cherry swept every morning in the preceding poem.
Third line, "sakurabana," names the cherries blooming at the ruined house.
Fourth line, "kokoroyasuku ya," means "at ease," with "ya" resolved by "ran" in the final line.
Final line, "kaze ni chiruran," with "ran" for present conjecture, guesses at the heart of the cherries.
- Author
- Egyō
- Source
- Shui Wakashu
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