合はせつる木居のはし鷹そばへかし
犬飼ひ人の声しきりなり
犬飼ひ人の声しきりなり
- Roma-ji
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Awasetsuru koi no hashitaka soba e kashi inukaibito no koe shikiri nari
- English Translation
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Loosed upon the prey,
the hawk sits perched up in a tree:
'Come back to my side!'
and the voices of the dog-men
keep calling over and over.
- Meaning
- The sparrow hawk loosed at the prey has perched in a tree, and the dog handlers keep calling, again and again, 'Come back here to my side!'
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 523
Headnote: "Falconry"
The poem is on falconry. The sparrow hawk loosed at the quarry has perched on a branch without taking it, and the dog handlers keep calling to bring it back; the poem is understood to depict this moment of the hunt. It catches the lively voices of a falconry party in the winter fields.
The next two poems are also on falconry, under the topic of falconry in the snow, so the three form a falconry sequence.
First line, “awasetsuru”: awasu is to loose a hawk at the quarry, and tsuru is the attributive of the perfective.
Second line, “koi no hashitaka”: koi is a hawk perched on a branch, and hashitaka is a small hawk used in falconry.
Third line, “soba e kashi”: understood as come to my side, with kashi adding insistence; these are the handler's words to the hawk.
Fourth line, “inukaibito no”: inukaibito are those who handle the dogs that flush the game in falconry.
Fifth line, “koe shikiri nari”: their voices are heard again and again, closing on the clamor of calling the hawk back.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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