さまざまに花咲きけりと見し野辺の
同じ色にも霜枯れにけり
同じ色にも霜枯れにけり
- Roma-ji
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Samazama ni hana sakikeri to mishi nobe no onaji iro ni mo shimogarenikeri
- English Translation
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In so many hues
I saw the flowers blooming there
across the meadow,
and now all in a single shade
the frost has withered everything.
- Meaning
- The meadow where I once saw flowers blooming in so many colors has now withered in the frost, all to one same color.
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 506
Headnote: "Composed at Sōrinji on the topic 'cold grasses in the fields'"
The headnote tells us this was composed at Sōrinji in the Higashiyama hills of the capital on the topic of cold grasses in the fields. The meadow the poet once viewed as blooming with flowers of every kind has, with winter, met the frost and turned all one withered color. The many-colored autumn meadow is set against the single color of the winter field.
Just as 254 at the head of Book Three began with samazama no aware, this poem opens with samazama ni to show the variety of autumn, and then shows it changed to a single color in winter.
First line, “samazama ni”: in many ways, showing the variety of the autumn flowers; it pairs with the single color of the fourth line.
Second line, “hana sakikeri to”: keri marks a realization, how the flowers are blooming.
Third line, “mishi nobe no”: shi is the attributive of the past auxiliary ki, the meadow I once saw.
Fourth line, “onaji iro ni mo”: one same color, set against samazama ni in the first line to show the field withered to a single hue.
Fifth line, “shimogarenikeri”: shimogaru is to wither in the frost, and nikeri is perfective and exclamatory; this answers the cold grasses of the topic.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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