五月雨に室の八島を見わたせば
煙は浪の上よりぞ立つ
煙は浪の上よりぞ立つ
- Roma-ji
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Samidare ni Muro no Yashima o miwataseba keburi wa nami no ue yori zo tatsu
- English Translation
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In the summer rains
when I look out over
Muro no Yashima,
the smoke is rising up
from atop the waves
- Meaning
- When I look out over Muro no Yashima in the early summer rains, the smoke is rising from atop the waves.
- Commentary
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Book Three Summer Poems 186
Headnote: "Composed on the summer rains when the Regent, while Minister of the Right, had hundred-poem sequences composed"
Composed on "the summer rains" when the present Regent, Kujō Kanezane, had people compose hundred-poem sequences while he was still Minister of the Right. Looking out over Muro no Yashima in the season of summer rains, the poet sees the smoke that usually rises from the ground rising instead from the waves of the swollen water. Depicting Muro no Yashima, a poetic place famed for its smoke, as a landscape covered in water, it pairs smoke and waves in a fresh conceit.
The author, "Minamoto no Yukiyori Ason," was a courtier of the late Heian period. Little else is known of his life.
Muro no Yashima is a poetic place in Shimotsuke, sung as a spot where smoke-like vapor rises from the water.
First line, "samidare ni": "in the time of the summer rains."
Second line, "Muro no Yashima o": a poetic place in Shimotsuke, known for its rising smoke.
Third line, "miwataseba": the realized condition, "when I look out over it."
Fourth line, "keburi wa nami no": "the smoke, from the waves." After the smoke along the shore ceased in the preceding poem, 185, this one finds smoke unexpectedly rising above the waves.
Fifth line, "ue yori zo tatsu": "zo" closes with the attributive "tatsu," showing the surprising sight of land covered by water and smoke rising from the waves.
- Author
- Minamoto no Yukiyori
- Source
- Senzai Wakashu
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