いざさらば盛り思ふもほどもあらじ
藐姑射が峰の花にむつれじ
藐姑射が峰の花にむつれじ
- Roma-ji
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Iza saraba sakari omou mo hodo mo araji hakoya ga mine no hana ni mutsureji
- English Translation
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Come then, let it be:
to dream of glory's high tide
cannot last for long;
I'll no longer cling fondly
to the blooms on Hakoya's peak.
- Meaning
- Well then, there is not long left to dream of the height of glory; I will no longer cling to the blossoms on the peak of Hakoya.
- Commentary
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One Hundred Poems 1503
Headnote: "Ten Poems of Reflection"
The first of the ten poems of reflection. Since there is little time left to dream of worldly glory, he resolves no longer to cling fondly to the blossoms on the peak of Hakoya.
Hakoya, the mountain of immortals, came to name the palace of a retired emperor. His resolve to stop delighting in the splendid blossoms of that palace seems to express a heart withdrawing from glory at court. In a hundred poems that began with blossoms, he sets blossoms again at the head of the reflections, now with a heart that turns away from them.
First line, “iza saraba”: well then, a word of resolve.
Second line, “sakari omou mo”: dreaming of the height of glory.
Third line, “hodo mo araji”: ji is negative conjecture, "it will not be long"; the line has an extra syllable and the poem breaks here.
Fourth line, “hakoya ga mine no”: Hakoya, the mountain of immortals, here naming the retired emperor's palace.
Fifth line, “hana ni mutsureji”: mutsuru is to cling fondly, and ji negative intention, "I will not cling to the blossoms."
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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