岩代の松風聞けば物思ふ
人も心ぞ結ぼほれける
人も心ぞ結ぼほれける
- Roma-ji
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Iwashiro no matsukaze kikeba mono omou hito mo kokoro zo musubōrekeru
- English Translation
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At Iwashiro
when I hear the wind in the pines,
one brooding on love
finds that his heart too is bound
and knotted up in its gloom.
- Meaning
- Hearing the wind in the pines of Iwashiro, the heart of one brooding over love grows knotted and heavy too.
- Commentary
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Love Poems 612
Headnote: "Love deepened by wind in the pines"
The topic is love deepened by the wind in the pines. Iwashiro in Kii is a poetic place known from the tale of Prince Arima, who long ago tied pine branches there to pray for his safe journey, so that it became the place of the bound pine. Hearing the wind in the pines of Iwashiro, the poet says, the heart of one brooding over love is bound up and weighed down, like the tied branches. Musubōru, to be knotted, is associated with the bound pine of Iwashiro.
First line, “Iwashiro no”: Iwashiro is a poetic place in Kii known as the site of the bound pine, where branches were tied to pray for a safe journey.
Second line, “matsukaze kikeba”: hearing the wind in the pines, answering the topic.
Third line, “mono omou”: brooding, troubled by love.
Fourth line, “hito mo kokoro zo”: the binding particle zo is answered by the attributive keru at the end.
Fifth line, “musubōrekeru”: musubōru is for the heart to be knotted and gloomy, associated with the bound pine of Iwashiro; this answers the deepening of love in the topic.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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