早蕨の萌え出づる春になりぬれば
野辺の霞もたなびきにけり
野辺の霞もたなびきにけり
- Roma-ji
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Sawarabi no moeizuru haru ni narinureba nobe no kasumi mo tanabikinikeri
- English Translation
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The early bracken
in the springtime when it sprouts—
now that it has come,
over all the fields the haze
has spread and trails out softly.
- Meaning
- Now that it is spring, when the early bracken sprouts, the haze has come to trail across the fields as well.
- Commentary
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Spring Poems 44
Headnote: "Early bracken"
The poet sings of the spring in which early bracken sprouts and haze trails across the fields. His gaze widens from small shoots at his feet to the haze over the broad fields, capturing the deepening of spring with ease. Kamo no Mabuchi said the lower verse is in a later manner.
In the Ruijū text the headnote reads "A spring poem." The upper verse draws on the lower verse of Prince Shiki's Man'yōshū poem rejoicing that spring has come, when the bracken sprouts above the cascading water.
Line 1, "The early bracken," means bracken just sprouting.
Line 2 is hypermetric at eight syllables and takes Prince Shiki's words as they are.
Line 3: the realis of nu with ba gives a settled condition—"now that spring has come."
Line 4: mo adds "the haze too," recalling the haze poems 10 through 12.
Line 5: keri expresses wonder at the spreading haze. It shares moe ("sprout") with the closing of the preceding poem, 42, so poems of budding continue.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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