刈りて干す淀の真菰の雨降れば
つかねもあへぬ恋もするかな
つかねもあへぬ恋もするかな
- Roma-ji
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Karite hosu Yodo no makomo no ame fureba tsukane mo aenu koi mo suru kana
- English Translation
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Like the wild rice cut
and dried by the Yodo shore
when the rain falls, so
I cannot gather it up,
this love that I am feeling.
- Meaning
- Like the wild rice cut and drying at Yodo, which cannot be bundled when the rain falls, so is this love of mine too tangled to gather up.
- Commentary
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Book Thirteen Love Poems III 824
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The poem says that as the wild rice cut and drying at Yodo cannot be bundled when rain falls, one loves with a love too disordered to gather up. The scene of cutting wild rice in the upper verse forms a preface, and a heart in disarray beyond control is laid over wild rice soaked by rain and impossible to bind.
The fourth line of the main text reads "tsukane mo aenu," which does not match "tsukanu mo aenu" in the reading line; here the main text is followed.
First line, "karite hosu," means "cut and dried."
Second line, "Yodo no makomo no," means "of the wild rice of Yodo," growing at Yodo in Yamashiro.
Third line, "ame fureba," means "since the rain falls." Up to here forms a preface. Where 797 resents the rain, this poem makes rain a figure for love's disorder.
Fourth line, "tsukane mo aenu," means "unable to bundle," with "aenu" meaning unable to accomplish.
Final line, "koi mo suru kana," means "such a love I feel," with "kana" exclamatory. It is the same final line as that of 791.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Shui Wakashu
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