たれすみて誰眺むらむ故郷の
吉野の宮の春の夜の月
吉野の宮の春の夜の月
- Roma-ji
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Tare sumite tare nagamuramu furusato no yoshino no miya no haru no yo no tsuki
- English Translation
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Who dwells there now, clear,
and who gazes on it now,
at the old homestead,
the palace of Yoshino—
the moon of the spring night?
- Meaning
- Who lives there now, and who gazes on it—the clear moon of a spring night over the old palace of Yoshino?
- Commentary
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Spring Poems 100
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "The spring moon over the old home"
The poet wonders who now lives at the site of the old detached palace of Yoshino and who gazes on this spring night's moon. In the moon shining on the old palace grounds, where the people of old are gone, he overlays his feelings about the passage of time. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle.
Line 1: sumi is a pivot word joining sumu, "to dwell," with sumu, "to be clear" (of the moon).
Line 2 repeats "who" to intensify the question; ramu conjectures about the present, and the poem pauses here.
Line 3 takes up the topic's "old home."
Line 4 names the Yoshino palace sung also in 7, "Spring arriving at the old capital." Early in the section the coming of spring, and here the spring night's moon, are sung at the same palace.
Line 5 ends on a noun, the same closing as the preceding poem, 99.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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