杣人の槙の仮屋のあだ臥しに
音するものは霰なりけり
音するものは霰なりけり
- Roma-ji
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Somabito no maki no kariya no adabushi ni oto suru mono wa arare narikeri
- English Translation
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Where the woodcutter
in his cypress hut of boughs
lies in makeshift sleep,
the only one that comes to call
is the hail upon the roof.
- Meaning
- To the makeshift bed of the woodcutter in his hut of cypress boughs, the only thing that comes calling with a sound is the hail.
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 545
Headnote: "Hail in the deep mountains"
The topic is hail in the deep mountains. When a woodcutter lies in makeshift sleep in a hut of cypress deep in the mountains, the one thing that comes calling to his bed with a sound is the hail. The poem catches the loneliness of the remote mountains, where the only visitor is the hail.
Like 502 in this book, which told of no person visiting and only the winter rain making its rounds of the hills, this poem names hail in place of a person as the thing that comes with a sound, treating the same device with winter rain and hail.
First line, “somabito no”: somabito is a person who fells timber in the mountains, a woodcutter.
Second line, “maki no kariya no”: maki are fine timber trees such as cedar and cypress, and kariya a temporary hut.
Third line, “adabushi ni”: adabushi is sleeping in a makeshift way.
Fourth line, “oto suru mono wa”: oto su holds both making a sound and coming to call.
Fifth line, “arare narikeri”: narikeri is assertive and exclamatory, closing on the surprise that it was the hail.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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