あまた見し豊の禊のもろ人の
君しも物を思はするかな
君しも物を思はするかな
- Roma-ji
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Amata mishi toyo no misogi no morobito no kimi shimo mono o omowasuru kana
- English Translation
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Of the many folk
I saw at the great rite
of purifying,
you alone, of all of them,
fill my heart with longing thoughts.
- Meaning
- Of all the many people I saw at the great purification rite, it is you, none other, who fills my heart with longing.
- Commentary
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Book Eleven Love Poems I 662
Headnote: "Sent on the following day, after seeing a child at the place where he was watching the purification rite of the Great Thanksgiving Festival"
The poem says that among all the people the poet saw at the purification rite of the Great Thanksgiving Festival, it is the beloved, none other, who fills his heart with longing. The headnote shows that he saw a child at the place where he was watching the purification rite, and sent this poem the next day. It expresses a heart captured by one alone among many, emphasized with "kimi shimo." Like Saneyori's poem in 636, which longs for one barely glimpsed, it sings of a love that begins with a single sight.
The author, Priest Kanyū, is said to have been a monk of the mid-Heian period, but little is known of his life.
First line, "amata mishi," means "the many I saw," with "shi" the attributive form of the past auxiliary "ki."
Second line, "toyo no misogi no," means "of the great purification," the rite the emperor performs on a riverbank before the Great Thanksgiving Festival, with "toyo" a word of praise.
Third line, "morobito no," means "among all the people."
Fourth line, "kimi shimo mono o," means "you, none other," with "shimo" an emphatic particle.
Final line, "omowasuru kana," means "make me fall into longing," with "suru" the attributive form of the causative "su" and "kana" exclamatory.
- Author
- Priest Kanyū
- Source
- Shui Wakashu
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