降り埋む雪を友にて春来ては
日を送るべき深山辺の里
日を送るべき深山辺の里
- Roma-ji
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Furiuzumu yuki o tomo nite haru kite wa hi o okuru beki miyamabe no sato
- English Translation
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With the burying snow
for a friend and companion,
even when spring comes,
I shall pass the days away
in this village by the deep hills.
- Meaning
- With the snow that buries all as my companion, even after spring has come I shall pass my days here in this village at the edge of the deep mountains.
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 568
Headnote: "When at the Omuro of Ninnaji poems were commanded on the topic 'seeing snow in quiet seclusion at a mountain dwelling'"
The headnote tells us this was composed when the Omuro of Ninnaji had poems composed on the topic of seeing snow in quiet seclusion at a mountain dwelling. Taking as his companion the snow that buries everything, the poet will pass his days with it even after spring comes, in this village at the edge of the deep mountains. He accepts the quiet life of a snowbound village as a life with snow for a friend.
The next poem also ends with miyamabe no sato, telling of the same village with its path closed by snow, so the two are linked by the same last line.
First line, “furiuzumu”: falling and burying everything.
Second line, “yuki o tomo nite”: with the snow as a friend, in a dwelling no one visits; it answers seeing snow in the topic.
Third line, “haru kite wa”: even after spring has come, showing that snow lingers into spring in the deep mountains.
Fourth line, “hi o okuru beki”: beki is an auxiliary of conjecture or what must be, where I must pass my days.
Fifth line, “miyamabe no sato”: miyamabe is the edge of the deep mountains; the poem ends on a noun, with the same last line as the next poem.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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