おしなべて花の盛りになりにけり
山の端ごとにかかる白雲
山の端ごとにかかる白雲
- Roma-ji
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Oshinabete hana no sakari ni narinikeri yama no ha goto ni kakaru shirakumo
- English Translation
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Everywhere alike
the blossoms have come
into their fullness:
on every ridge of mountains
the white clouds are hanging
- Meaning
- Everywhere alike, the blossoms have reached their peak; along every mountain ridge, white clouds seem to hang.
- Commentary
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Book One Spring Poems I 69
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed as a poem on blossoms"
Composed on the topic "blossoms," this poem says that as far as the eye can see the cherries have reached full bloom, so that white clouds seem to hang along every mountain ridge. Likening the cherries that whiten the hills to white clouds, it broadly captures the expanse of spring in full flower.
The author, "the monk En'i," is Saigyō. His lay name was Satō Norikiyo; once a warrior of the North Guard of Retired Emperor Toba, he took holy orders at twenty-three. He traveled through many provinces composing poems and also used the name En'i.
First line, "oshinabete": "everywhere alike."
Second line, "hana no sakari ni": "to the peak of the blossoms," a phrase the next poem, 70, also uses.
Third line, "narinikeri": "ni" marks completion and "keri" realization, "they have become so," and the poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "yama no ha goto ni": "yama no ha" is the ridgeline, where mountain meets sky.
Fifth line, "kakaru shirakumo": ending on a noun, it likens the cherries to white clouds. The next poem, 70, ends with "mine no shirakumo," continuing the poems that see blossoms as white clouds.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Senzai Wakashu
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