雨によりたみのの島を分け行けど
なにはかくれぬものにぞありける
なにはかくれぬものにぞありける
- Roma-ji
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Ame ni yori tamino no shima o wakeyukedo na ni wa kakurenu mono ni zo arikeru
- English Translation
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Because of the rain,
I make my way across
the isle of Tamino,
yet from the name of Naniwa
there is no hiding under straw.
- Meaning
- Because of the rain I push my way across the island of Tamino, "rice-straw raincoat," yet I find there is no hiding from a name, for this is Naniwa.
- Commentary
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Book Six Parting Poems 343
Headnote: "On being caught in the rain near the island of Tamino"
Caught in the rain, the poet makes his way across the island of Tamino, whose name contains "mino," a straw raincoat, and jests on the place name Naniwa that while a raincoat may hide the body, one cannot hide from a name. Linking the two place names Tamino and Naniwa through rain and raincoat, he turns the rain on the road into wit. According to the headnote, it was composed when he was caught in the rain near the island of Tamino.
The author, written as Tsurayuki, is Ki no Tsurayuki. The leading compiler of the Kokinshū, he wrote its Kana Preface and the Tosa Diary, and he is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.
First line, "ame ni yori," means "because of the rain."
Second line, "tamino no shima o," plays on the island of Tamino at Naniwa in Settsu and "mino," a straw raincoat.
Third line, "wakeyukedo," means "though I make my way through," with "do" a concessive particle.
Fourth line, "na ni wa kakurenu," plays on "na ni wa kakurenu," one cannot hide from a name, and the place name Naniwa. Following Hamana in 342, the preceding poem, it is a poem of wit on a place "name."
Final line, "mono ni zo arikeru," means "so it was," with "zo" resolved by the attributive "keru."
- Author
- Ki no Tsurayuki
- Source
- Shui Wakashu
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