家の風吹き伝へけるかひありて
散る言の葉の珍しきかな
散る言の葉の珍しきかな
- Roma-ji
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Ie no kaze fukitsutaekeru kai arite chiru koto no ha no mezurashiki kana
- English Translation
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Worthy of the wind
of the family's style that has
blown on down to you,
how splendid are the leaves
of words now scattered forth.
- Meaning
- Worthy indeed of the family style that has come down on the wind, how splendid are the leaves of words now scattered forth.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 933
Headnote: "When the new Retired Emperor called for hundred-poem sequences, the Major Captain of the Right Kinyoshi sent me the poems he was to present, and I wrote this in reply"
When the new Retired Emperor, Sutoku, called for hundred-poem sequences, Fujiwara no Kinyoshi, Major Captain of the Right, sent Saigyō the poems he was to present, and Saigyō composed this in reply. These hundred poems are known as the Kyūan Hundred-Poem Sequences. Worthy of the family style that has come down on the wind, how splendid are your words, he says, praising Kinyoshi's sequence. Like the two poems before, it uses the phrase 'family wind.'
First line, “ie no kaze”: the family's poetic style, the same words as the first lines of the two poems before.
Second line, “fukitsutaekeru”: that has blown down to you, related to the wind.
Third line, “kai arite”: worthy of it.
Fourth line, “chiru koto no ha no”: of the poems sent forth; chiru is related to the wind.
Fifth line, “mezurashiki kana”: mezurashi is splendid, fresh; kana is exclamatory.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
- Prev Poem
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Ie no kaze mune to fuku beki ko no moto wa ima chirinan to omou koto no ha
- Next Poem
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Ie no kaze fukitsutau tomo Waka no ura ni kai aru koto no ha nite koso shire