波間より見えし景色ぞ変はりぬる
雪降りにけり松が浦島
雪降りにけり松が浦島
- Roma-ji
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Namima yori mieshi keshiki zo kawarinuru yuki furinikeri Matsugaurashima
- English Translation
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The view I once saw
between the waves has changed
entirely now:
the snow has fallen at last
on the isle of Matsugaura
- Meaning
- The view I used to see between the waves has changed; snow has fallen on the isle of Matsugaura.
- Commentary
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Book Six Winter Poems 460
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed as a poem on snow"
Composed as a poem on snow. The view he used to see between the waves has changed, the poet says, for snow has fallen on the isle of Matsugaura. The poem is built so that he first notices the change in the view, the island green with pines seen between the waves now turned white, and reveals its cause in the lower verse.
The author, "Kenshō Hōshi," was the adopted son of Fujiwara no Akisuke, Master of the Eastern Capital Office. A scholar monk who inherited the poetic learning of the Rokujō Fujiwara house, he wrote treatises such as Shūchūshō.
Poems on snow continue from 445 to 467. The four poems from 457 to 460 are poems on snow placed under the same headnote.
First line, "namima yori": "from between the waves."
Second line, "mieshi keshiki zo": "shi," the attributive of the past "ki," the view that used to be seen. The emphatic "zo" closes with the attributive "nuru" in the third line.
Third line, "kawarinuru": "nuru," the attributive of the perfective "nu," "has changed." The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "yuki furinikeri": "keri" expresses realization, "snow has fallen," the reason the view has changed. The poem pauses again.
Fifth line, "Matsugaurashima": the poem ends on a noun, a poetic place in Mutsu Province sung of as an island thick with pines.
- Author
- Kenshō
- Source
- Senzai Wakashu
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