真柴葺く宿の霰に夢覚めて
有明方の月を見るかな
有明方の月を見るかな
- Roma-ji
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Mashiba fuku yado no arare ni yume samete ariakegata no tsuki o miru kana
- English Translation
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Woken from my dream
by the hail upon the hut
thatched with brushwood twigs,
I find myself gazing at
the moon that lingers into dawn
- Meaning
- Woken from my dream by hail falling on my hut thatched with brushwood, I find myself gazing at the moon that still remains at dawn.
- Commentary
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Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 1014
Headnote: "Composed on the theme "Dawn haze at a mountain dwelling""
This poem was composed on the theme "dawn haze at a mountain dwelling." Woken from a dream by hail on my brushwood-thatched hut, I gaze at the moon at dawn, he says. In a humble mountain dwelling, woken by the sound of hail on the roof, he looks out to find the dawn moon still there, depicting the lonely, frosty scene of a mountain home on a winter dawn. Yet the poem sings not of haze but of hail and the dawn moon.
The author, "Ōe no Kinkage," was a poet of the late Heian period whose biography is not known in detail.
Where 1005 of this book sings of the moon seen on waking amid the storm through the deep mountain pines, this poem sings of the moon seen on waking to the sound of hail, the two alike as poems of the moon seen on waking in the mountains.
First line, "mashiba fuku": "thatched with brushwood," expressing a humble mountain dwelling. "Ma" is an honorific prefix.
Second line, "yado no arare ni": "at the sound of hail striking the roof of the hut."
Third line, "yume samete": "woken from a dream." It answers "nezame ni" in the fourth line of 1005 of this book.
Fourth line, "ariakegata no": "of the dawn when the moon still lingers."
Fifth line, "tsuki o miru kana": "kana" is exclamatory, "how I gaze at the moon."
- Author
- Ōe no Kinkage
- Source
- Senzai Wakashu
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