朝霞立てるを見ればみづのえの
吉野の宮に春は来にけり
吉野の宮に春は来にけり
- Roma-ji
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Asagasumi tateru o mireba mizunoe no yoshino no miya ni haru wa kinikeri
- English Translation
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When I see the haze
of morning rising up, I know—
at the Mizunoe
palace of Yoshino, too,
spring has come to us once more.
- Meaning
- Seeing the morning haze rise, I realize that spring has come once again to the palace of Yoshino of Mizunoe.
- Commentary
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Spring Poems 7
Headnote: "Spring arriving at the old capital"
Under the topic "Spring arriving at the old capital," the poet sings of spring coming to Yoshino, where a detached palace once stood. Spring arrives unchanged even in a place that no longer keeps its former glory, and in the rising morning haze the passage of history overlaps with the certainty of the seasons. Kamo no Mabuchi gave it a double circle, remarking that the phrase "Yoshino palace of Mizunoe" is meaningless in later poets, but that given Sanetomo's style he probably followed ancient usage dating back to the Kojiki.
This poem was included in the Shokugosen Wakashū.
Line 1, asagasumi ("morning haze"), is a sign of spring's arrival.
Line 2: ru, the attributive form of the resultative ri, shows the poet gazing at the haze as it stands; the haze "rising" (tatsu) also echoes spring "arising."
Line 3: mizunoe no is an old epithet attached to the Yoshino palace, a usage Mabuchi's comment addresses.
Line 4: the Yoshino palace was a detached palace in Yamato, and the "old capital" of the topic refers to this site.
Line 5, "spring has come," is the same closing as poem 1, so the New Year's opening poem and this poem of spring at the old palace end with the same words.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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