年暮れてその営みは忘られて
あらぬさまなる急ぎをぞする
あらぬさまなる急ぎをぞする
- Roma-ji
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Toshi kurete sono itonami wa wasurarete aranu sama naru isogi o zo suru
- English Translation
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The year draws to its close,
and the tasks of former years
have slipped from my mind,
now preparations of a kind
quite different I make.
- Meaning
- The year has drawn to its close, and the tasks of year's end I once had are forgotten; now I busy myself with preparations of quite another kind.
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 574
Headnote: "Expressing my thoughts at the year's end in Higashiyama"
The headnote tells us this was composed at the year's end in Higashiyama in the capital, expressing the poet's thoughts. As the year closes, he has quite forgotten the year-end tasks of his life in the world, and now he makes preparations of an altogether different kind. He looks at the year's end after leaving the world through its difference from his former life.
The poem was included in the Gyokuyō Wakashū. Where the preceding poem told of preparations in a mountain hut for the new year, this one tells of a man making preparations unlike those of the world, so poems on year-end preparations follow one another.
First line, “toshi kurete”: the year having drawn to a close.
Second line, “sono itonami wa”: itonami is work or the preparation of rites, here the year-end tasks of his former life in the world.
Third line, “wasurarete”: rete is the continuative of the spontaneous auxiliary ru, forgotten of themselves.
Fourth line, “aranu sama naru”: aranu sama nari means of an altogether different kind.
Fifth line, “isogi o zo suru”: isogi is preparation, and zo is an emphatic particle binding with the attributive suru.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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