吉野山雲をはかりに尋ね入りて
心にかけし花を見るかな
心にかけし花を見るかな
- Roma-ji
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Yoshinoyama kumo o hakari ni tazuneirite kokoro ni kakeshi hana o miru kana
- English Translation
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On Mount Yoshino,
guided by the clouds alone
I have made my way,
and the blooms I've held in heart
at last I gaze upon them.
- Meaning
- Making my way deep into Mount Yoshino with only the clouds to guide me, I gaze at last upon the blossoms I have long held in my heart.
- Commentary
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Spring Poems 62
Headnote: "When composing many poems on cherry blossoms"
This poem comes from a time when the poet composed many poems on cherry blossoms, and twenty-five cherry poems follow under this headnote. On Mount Yoshino he presses deep into the mountains guided by white clouds that are really blossoms, and at last sees the flowers he has long held in his heart.
The waiting heart of the preceding poems here arrives at the joy of seeing the blossoms. Using clouds as a guide carries the conceit of cherries mistaken for clouds, and kakeshi, held in heart, echoes the clouds that hang over the mountain.
First line, “Yoshinoyama”: Mount Yoshino in Yamato, famed for its cherries.
Second line, “kumo o hakari ni”: taking the clouds as a guide, heading into the mountains toward the cloud-like masses of cherries.
Third line, “tazuneirite”: searching my way deep in, a line with an extra syllable.
Fourth line, “kokoro ni kakeshi”: that I had held in my heart; kake echoes the clouds hanging over the mountain in the second line.
Fifth line, “hana o miru kana”: I see those blossoms, closing with the exclamatory kana and the joy of a wish fulfilled.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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