難波潟漕ぎ出づる舟の目もはるに
霞に消えて帰る雁がね
霞に消えて帰る雁がね
- Roma-ji
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Naniwagata kogiizuru fune no me mo haru ni kasumi ni kiete kaeru karigane
- English Translation
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From Naniwa's shore
a boat rows out upon the bay,
far as eyes can reach,
vanishing into the haze—
the wild geese returning north.
- Meaning
- A boat rows out from Naniwa Bay until it is far beyond sight, and into the spring haze beyond it the wild geese vanish as they return north.
- Commentary
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Spring Poems 102
Headnote: "A spring view by the sea"
Watching a boat row out from Naniwa Bay into the far distance, the poet sees wild geese returning north vanish into the spring haze beyond it. It is a poem of a broad spring view in which sea and sky, boat and geese, melt together in the haze. Kamo no Mabuchi said the third line is unsuitable.
The Ruijū text places it among the miscellaneous poems.
Line 1 names Naniwagata, the tidal flats of Naniwa in Settsu, a poetic site.
Line 2 is hypermetric at eight syllables, naming a boat rowing out to sea.
Line 3: haru is a pivot word joining haru, "far as the eye can see," with haru, "spring"; Mabuchi judged this line unsuitable.
Line 4 shows boat and geese disappearing into the haze.
Line 5 ends on a noun, naming the geese that return north in spring. The next poems, 103 and 104, also sing of returning geese, forming a set of three.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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