常よりもまた濡れ添ひし袂かな
昔をかけて落ちし涙に
昔をかけて落ちし涙に
- Roma-ji
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Tsune yori mo mata nuresoishi tamoto kana mukashi o kakete ochishi namida ni
- English Translation
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More than ever now
my sleeves are soaked again,
wet through and through,
with tears that fell as I recalled
the days of long ago
- Meaning
- My sleeves are wetter than ever, soaked once more with tears that fell as I thought back on days long past.
- Commentary
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Book Nine Poems of Lament 566
Headnote: "Presented the morning after I went to Jōtōmon'in, when she seemed to be recalling Emperor Ichijō and the past"
Presented the morning after the poet visited Jōtōmon'in, who seemed to be remembering the late Emperor Ichijō and the past. My sleeves are wetter than ever, she says, with the tears that fell as I recalled the past. Touched by her mistress's grief, she tells her that she too wept, remembering the days when Emperor Ichijō was alive, and so keeps her company in her sorrow.
The author, "Akazome Emon," was the daughter of Akazome no Tokimochi. She became the wife of Ōe no Masahira and served Jōtōmon'in Shōshi. She is one of the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals of the Middle Ages and has a poem in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
The next poem, 567, is Jōtōmon'in's reply.
First line, "tsune yori mo": "more than usual." Poem 582 of this book opens with the same words.
Second line, "mata nuresoishi": "nuresou" is to grow wetter still, and "shi" the attributive of the past "ki."
Third line, "tamoto kana": the exclamatory "kana," and the poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "mukashi o kakete": "kake" is to hold in mind, "recalling the past" when Emperor Ichijō was alive.
Fifth line, "ochishi namida ni": "with the tears that fell," giving the reason for the upper verse afterward, by inversion.
- Author
- Akazome Emon
- Source
- Senzai Wakashu
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