東屋の小萱が軒の糸水に
玉貫きかくる五月雨の頃
玉貫きかくる五月雨の頃
- Roma-ji
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Azumaya no ogaya ga noki no itomizu ni tama nukikakuru samidare no koro
- English Translation
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From the arbor's eaves,
thatched with slender reeds, the rain
falls in threads of water,
stringing beads and hanging them,
in this time of summer rains.
- Meaning
- From the reed-thatched eaves of the humble arbor, the rainwater falls in slender threads, the drops strung along them like beads hung up to view, in this season of early summer rain.
- Commentary
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Summer Poems 212
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Early summer rains"
This is the sixth of the early summer rain poems. The poet likens the drops beading along the thin streams of rainwater falling from the reed-thatched eaves of a humble arbor to beads threaded on a string and hung up.
Taking up the drops from the eaves in the preceding poem, this one also depicts rainwater falling from the eaves, but rather than an object of brooding it becomes a lovely scene through the likening of threads and beads. The same rain from the eaves is treated once as feeling and once as scene.
First line, “azumaya no”: azumaya is a simple building with a roof and no walls, or a rustic, humble house.
Second line, “ogaya ga noki no”: eaves thatched with reeds.
Third line, “itomizu ni”: rainwater flowing down from the eaves in slender threads.
Fourth line, “tama nukikakuru”: threading beads on a string and hanging them up, likening the line of drops to beads on the thread of the third line.
Fifth line, “samidare no koro”: the poem ends on a noun, closing with the line shared by the group of rain poems.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
- Prev Poem
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Tsukuzuku to noki no shizuku o nagametsutsu hi o nomi kurasu samidare no koro
- Next Poem
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Samidare ni oda no sanae ya ika naran aze no ukitsuchi araikosarete