絶えたりし君が御幸を待ちつけて
神いかばかり嬉しかるらん
神いかばかり嬉しかるらん
- Roma-ji
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Taetarishi kimi ga miyuki o machitsukete kami ika bakari ureshikaruran
- English Translation
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Having waited long
for the royal progress
so long in abeyance,
how deep must be the joy
of the god of Sumiyoshi!
- Meaning
- Having at last welcomed the imperial visit so long discontinued, how glad the god of Sumiyoshi must be!
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 1218
Headnote: "On the first day of the sixth month of the first year of Jōan, after the Retired Emperor's pilgrimage to Kumano, he made a progress to Sumiyoshi. Traveling on pilgrimage, I visited that shrine on the second, and seeing that Suminoe had been newly refurbished, I felt the god must be recalling the progress of Retired Emperor Go-Sanjō, and composed this"
On the first day of the sixth month of Jōan 1 (1171), Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa visited the Sumiyoshi Shrine on his way back from Kumano. Saigyō, on pilgrimage, came to the shrine the next day and, seeing it newly refurbished, felt that the god must be recalling the visit of Retired Emperor Go-Sanjō. Having welcomed at last an imperial visit long discontinued, how glad the god must be, he says.
Nearly a century after Go-Sanjō's visit, the poem imagines the joy of the Sumiyoshi god in receiving a retired emperor once more, celebrating the splendid occasion by guessing at the god's heart.
First line, “taetarishi”: that had long ceased; shi is the attributive of the past ki.
Second line, “kimi ga miyuki o”: the retired emperor's progress.
Third line, “machitsukete”: having awaited and welcomed it.
Fourth line, “kami ika bakari”: how greatly the god.
Fifth line, “ureshikaruran”: ran conjectures, "how glad he must be," guessing the god's feelings.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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