木のもとの花の下臥し夜ごろ経て
わが衣手に月ぞ馴れぬる
わが衣手に月ぞ馴れぬる
- Roma-ji
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Ko no moto no hana no shitabushi yogoro hete waga koromode ni tsuki zo narenuru
- English Translation
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Under the trees here,
sleeping beneath the blossoms
night after night,
on the sleeve that I spread out
the moon has grown familiar.
- Meaning
- After nights of sleeping beneath the blossoms under the trees, the moonlight has grown quite familiar with my sleeve.
- Commentary
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Spring Poems 62
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On a folding-screen painting of many travelers lying beneath the blossoms"
As he spends night after night sleeping beneath the cherry trees, the poet finds he has grown familiar with the moonlight resting on his sleeve. The length of his stay among the flowers is expressed through his intimacy with the moon, and this poem closes the four poems on the screen painting. Kamo no Mabuchi said the third and last lines are in a later manner.
Line 1, "Under the trees," continues from 60 and 61; across the four poems the scene beneath the trees is portrayed.
Line 2: shitabushi means lying down to sleep beneath the trees.
Line 3 means "for many nights," a line Mabuchi judged a later style.
Line 4 is the same line as in the preceding poem; on the sleeve where blossoms fell, now the moon dwells.
Line 5: zo with the attributive of nu forms a kakarimusubi. Moving from falling blossoms by day to the moon by night, it shows the stay foreseen in 59 ("I'll spend many days") come true.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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