山賤の住みぬと見ゆるわたりかな
冬にあせゆく静原の里
冬にあせゆく静原の里
- Roma-ji
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Yamagatsu no suminu to miyuru watari kana fuyu ni aseyuku shizuhara no sato
- English Translation
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Only mountain folk
seem to make their dwelling here,
all around this place—
fading with the winter's coming,
the village of Shizuhara.
- Meaning
- It looks like a place where only mountain folk dwell—the village of Shizuhara, fading away as winter comes.
- Commentary
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One Hundred Poems 1548
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Ten Miscellaneous Poems"
The sixth of the ten miscellaneous poems. The village of Shizuhara, fading with the coming of winter, seems inhabited only by mountain folk.
Shizuhara is a mountain village north of the capital, and the poem sings of how in winter it grows still more deserted, seeming a lonely place where only mountain folk live. Like Ōhara and Serifu in 1489 among the snow poems, it depicts a village north of the capital by its actual name.
First line, “yamagatsu no”: of mountain folk who live by woodcutting and the like.
Second line, “suminu to miyuru”: nu marks completion, "seeming to dwell there."
Third line, “watari kana”: watari means vicinity, and kana marks exclamation; the poem breaks here.
Fourth line, “fuyu ni aseyuku”: asu is to fade, decline, "fading in winter."
Fifth line, “shizuhara no sato”: the mountain village of Shizuhara north of the capital, ending on a noun; the inversion names the place.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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