松が根の岩田の岸の夕涼み
君があれなと思ほゆるかな
君があれなと思ほゆるかな
- Roma-ji
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Matsugane no iwata no kishi no yūsuzumi kimi ga are na to omoyuru kana
- English Translation
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Where the roots of pines
spread on Iwata's riverbank,
cool in the evening—
how I find myself wishing
that you were here with me now.
- Meaning
- Taking the evening cool on the bank of Iwata where the pine roots spread, how I find myself wishing you were here.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 1077
Headnote: "In summer, on the way to Kumano, I took the cool at a place called Iwata and sent this to the capital, to the holy man Saijū, by someone returning there"
On a summer pilgrimage to Kumano, Saigyō rested in the cool at Iwata and sent this poem to the holy man Saijū in the capital by a traveler going back. Taking the evening cool on the bank where the pine roots spread, he wishes his friend were with him.
The cool scene on the Kumano road is sung as something he longs to share with a companion. Saijū was a monk who traveled long with Saigyō, and their exchanges appear in this book as well.
First line, “matsugane no”: where pine roots spread, setting the scene of the bank.
Second line, “iwata no kishi no”: Iwata, on the Kumano road in Kii, the bank of the Iwata River; "pine roots" and "rock" in its name are associated.
Third line, “yūsuzumi”: taking the evening cool, a noun that breaks the poem.
Fourth line, “kimi ga are na to”: na expresses a wish, "if only you were here."
Fifth line, “omoyuru kana”: omoyu is to come to mind of itself; kana is exclamatory.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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