今宵こそあはれみあつき心地して
嵐の音をよそに聞きつれ
嵐の音をよそに聞きつれ
- Roma-ji
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Koyoi koso awaremi atsuki kokochi shite arashi no oto o yoso ni kikitsure
- English Translation
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Tonight above all,
feeling kindness, warm and thick
as the robe you gave,
the roar of the raging storm
I heard as a thing far off.
- Meaning
- Tonight above all, feeling your kindness thick as the robe you gave me, I heard the roar of the storm as something far away.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 916
Headnote: "At a time of unusually rough and cold weather, the Prince Hōin, who was in retreat on Kōya, asked how I was faring in the cold and gave me a padded robe; the next morning I sent this"
In a season of unusually rough and bitter cold, the Prince Hōin, in retreat on Mount Kōya, asked how Saigyō was faring and gave him a padded robe, and the next morning he sent this in thanks. The Prince Hōin is taken to be Gensei, a son of Retired Emperor Sutoku. Tonight above all, feeling the thickness of your kindness, I heard the storm as something far away, he says, thanking him for the robe.
First line, “koyoi koso”: koso is answered by tsure in the fifth line.
Second line, “awaremi atsuki”: atsuki is a pivot word joining deep compassion and the thickness of the robe.
Third line, “kokochi shite”: feeling so.
Fourth line, “arashi no oto o”: the sound of the storm, taking up the rough cold of the headnote.
Fifth line, “yoso ni kikitsure”: the perfective closing koso; I heard it as far away.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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