草しげみ沢にぬはれて伏す鴫の
いかによそだつ人の心ぞ
いかによそだつ人の心ぞ
- Roma-ji
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Kusa shigemi sawa ni nuwarete fusu shigi no ika ni yosodatsu hito no kokoro zo
- English Translation
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Where the grass grows thick,
like the snipe that lies sewn down
in the marshy fen,
how is it that your heart
rises and draws away?
- Meaning
- Like the snipe lying pinned down in the marsh amid the thick grass, then rising and flying away—why does your heart grow so distant?
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 1275
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "One hundred and ten love poems"
Like the snipe lying pinned among thick grass in the marsh, then rising to fly off, why does your heart draw away from me? the poet asks.
The upper lines act almost as a preface leading to the snipe "rising," continuing into yosodatsu, the heart growing distant. Borrowing the autumn image of a snipe in the marsh, it laments a lover's change of heart.
First line, “kusa shigemi”: mi expresses cause, "since the grass is thick."
Second line, “sawa ni nuwarete”: as if sewn down in the marsh; the text reads nuwarete.
Third line, “fusu shigi no”: of the snipe lying low, leading to its "rising."
Fourth line, “ika ni yosodatsu”: yosodatsu is to grow distant, echoing the snipe "rising."
Fifth line, “hito no kokoro zo”: zo is emphatic, "your heart."
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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