山吹の花咲く井手の里こそは
やしうゐたりと思はざらなん
やしうゐたりと思はざらなん
- Roma-ji
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Yamabuki no hana saku ide no sato koso wa yashuitari to omowazaranan
- English Translation
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The village of Ide,
where the yellow kerria
blooms so bright and fair—
do not think of it, I pray,
as mere gleanings left behind.
- Meaning
- Please do not think of Ide village, where the kerria blooms, as something merely gleaned and left over.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 1169
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On the night of Kōshin... to the Shūishū, linked to the kerria"
From the same Kōshin-night topics, this is the Shūishū linked to the kerria. Do not think of the village of Ide, where the kerria blooms, as of little worth, the poet says.
Ide, in Yamashiro, was a poetic place known for kerria and frogs. Yashuitari is hard to construe, but it seems a play on the sound of shūi, "gleanings," in the topic, hinting that the Shūishū should not be slighted as a mere gathering of what the first two anthologies left; the hint is entrusted to the kerria. The three poems form a playful set entrusting the character of each of the three anthologies to plum, cherry, and kerria.
First line, “yamabuki no”: of the kerria, which blooms yellow in late spring.
Second line, “hana saku ide no”: Ide, a poetic place in Yamashiro famed for kerria.
Third line, “sato koso wa”: koso stresses "the village of Ide, none other."
Fourth line, “yashuitari to”: hard to construe, apparently a play on the sound of shūi in the topic.
Fifth line, “omowazaranan”: nan expresses a wish, "please do not think so."
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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