梓弓春の荒田をうちかへし
思ひやみにし人ぞ恋しき
思ひやみにし人ぞ恋しき
- Roma-ji
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Azusayumi haru no arata o uchikaeshi omoiyaminishi hito zo koishiki
- English Translation
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Like the catalpa bow,
the neglected spring rice field
is turned up again,
and the one I thought I'd ceased
to love, I long for once more.
- Meaning
- As the neglected field of spring is turned over again, so I long once more for the one I thought I had ceased to love.
- Commentary
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Book Thirteen Love Poems III 812
Headnote: "Topic unknown"
The poem says that as one turns over a neglected spring field, one comes to long once more for a person one had ceased to think of. The scene of tilling the spring field in the upper verse forms a preface, and the revival of a love one thought forgotten is laid over the turning of the soil.
First line, "azusayumi," is a pillow word modifying "haru," spring, from "haru," to draw a bow.
Second line, "haru no arata o," means "the neglected spring field." It shares the spring field with the third line of the preceding poem, 811, "haru no ta o."
Third line, "uchikaeshi," is a pivot word: it means "turning over" the field and the feelings returning again and again. The first three lines form a preface. It shares the word "kaesu" with "kaesugaesu" in the preceding poem.
Fourth line, "omoiyaminishi," means "whom I had ceased to think of," with "ni" the continuative form of the perfective "nu" and "shi" the attributive form of the past "ki."
Final line, "hito zo koishiki," means "it is that person I long for," concluding in the attributive form "koishiki" in answer to "zo." With nearly the same ending as the final line of the preceding poem, "hito wa koishiki," the two poems form a pair.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Shui Wakashu
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Wasuraruru toki shi nakereba haru no ta o kaesugaesu zo hito wa koishiki
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Kano oka ni hagi karu onoko nawa o nami neru ya neriso no kudakete zo omou