雪埋む園の呉竹折れ伏して
ねぐら求むるむら雀かな
ねぐら求むるむら雀かな
- Roma-ji
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Yuki uzumu sono no kuretake orefushite negura motomuru murasuzume kana
- English Translation
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Under burying snow
the bamboo in the garden
bent and broken down,
seeking somewhere now to roost,
a flock of sparrows flutters!
- Meaning
- The bamboo in the garden, buried in snow, has broken and fallen flat, and a flock of sparrows flutters about seeking a place to roost.
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 535
Headnote: "On the topic 'snow burying bamboo'"
The topic is snow burying bamboo. Under the weight of the piled snow, the bamboo in the garden has broken and lies flat, and the flock of sparrows that roosted there flits about seeking somewhere to sleep. The depth of the snow is caught through the sparrows that have lost their roost.
The next poem also tells of snow on the tips of bamboo leaves, so two poems pairing bamboo and snow follow one another.
First line, “yuki uzumu”: snow burying it, answering the snow burying of the topic.
Second line, “sono no kuretake”: sono is a garden, and kuretake a bamboo with fine leaves and many joints, answering the bamboo of the topic.
Third line, “orefushite”: broken and laid flat under the weight of the snow.
Fourth line, “negura motomuru”: negura is a bird's roost, seeking it.
Fifth line, “murasuzume kana”: murasuzume is a flock of sparrows, and kana is exclamatory.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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