山風の桜吹きまき散る花の
乱れて見ゆる志賀の浦波
乱れて見ゆる志賀の浦波
- Roma-ji
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Yamakaze no sakura fukimaki chiru hana no midarete miyuru shiga no uranami
- English Translation
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The mountain wind blows,
whirling up the cherry blossoms;
scattering petals
in their tumult can be seen
on the waves of Shiga's bay.
- Meaning
- The mountain wind whirls the cherry blossoms, and the falling petals can be seen tossing wildly on the waves of Shiga Bay.
- Commentary
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Spring Poems 77
Headnote: "Falling blossoms by the lake"
At Shiga Bay on the shore of Lake Biwa, the poet depicts cherry petals whirled by the mountain wind scattering wildly over the waves. He captures the flowers falling from the hills to the lake as a scene tossing together with the waves.
The Ruijū and Teika texts read "haze" instead of "cherry" in the second line.
Line 1 opens like the preceding poem, 76.
Line 2 takes up "whirling the cherry blossoms" from the preceding poem, moving the scene from the falls of Yoshino to the lake at Shiga.
Line 3 names the petals scattered by the wind.
Line 4 means petals and waves look mingled in confusion.
Line 5 ends on a noun, naming the waves of Shiga Bay on the west shore of Lake Biwa. The Shiga sung in 64 is here portrayed as a lakeside scene.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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