雪閉ぢし谷の古巣を思ひ出でて
花にむつるる鶯の声
花にむつるる鶯の声
- Roma-ji
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Yuki tojishi tani no furusu o omoiidete hana ni mutsururu uguisu no koe
- English Translation
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Of its snow-shut nest
in the valley long ago
now it calls to mind,
as it frolics with the flowers:
the warbler's voice rings out.
- Meaning
- Remembering its old nest in the valley shut in by snow, the warbler now sings as it frolics among the blossoms.
- Commentary
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Spring Poems 61
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Waiting for the blossoms"
This is the fourth poem on waiting for the blossoms. It portrays the warbler's voice as it nestles among the opened blossoms, recalling the days spent all winter in its old nest in a valley shut in by snow.
The warbler's move from snowy valley to flowering village is overlaid with the shift from winter to spring and with the joy of blossoms long awaited. Tani no furusu is the same phrase as in the sequence 27 to 30; there the warbler's leaving its valley nest was mourned, while here it has left the nest and delights in the blossoms.
First line, “yuki tojishi”: shut in by snow, the valley in winter.
Second line, “tani no furusu o”: the valley nest where the warbler spent the winter.
Third line, “omoiidete”: remembering, a line with an extra syllable.
Fourth line, “hana ni mutsururu”: nestling close among the blossoms in affection.
Fifth line, “uguisu no koe”: the poem closes on a noun, the warbler's voice singing among the blossoms.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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