女郎花池のさ波に枝ひちて
もの思ふ袖の濡るる顔なる
もの思ふ袖の濡るる顔なる
- Roma-ji
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Ominaeshi ike no sazanami ni e hichite mono omou sode no nururu kao naru
- English Translation
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The maidenflower,
in the ripples of the pond
soaking her branches,
wears the look of sleeves grown wet
on one sunk in longing thought.
- Meaning
- The maidenflower, dipping her branches in the ripples of the pond, wears the look of one lost in longing, her sleeves wet with tears.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 284
Headnote: "Maidenflower close to the water"
The topic is the maidenflower growing close to the water. The maidenflower dips her branches into the ripples of the pond and is wet, looking like someone lost in sad thoughts whose sleeves are wet with tears. The water-soaked flower is likened to a woman weeping over love.
Where the two preceding poems spoke of the maidenflower gazing at its reflection, this one tells of it wet from dipping its branches in the water, varying the theme of the maidenflower by the water. The series on the maidenflower that began with 276 closes here.
First line, “ominaeshi”: one of the seven flowers of autumn, here again likened to a woman lost in thought.
Second line, “ike no sazanami ni”: sazanami are small ripples, with sa as a prefix.
Third line, “e hichite”: hitsu is to be soaked, the branches dipping in the waves.
Fourth line, “mono omou sode no”: the sleeves of one sunk in thoughts of love, evoking sleeves wet with tears.
Fifth line, “nururu kao naru”: kao means the look of, and naru, the attributive of the assertive auxiliary, ends with lingering feeling, it looks like sleeves wet with tears.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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