雁がねの帰る翼に香るなり
花を恨むる春の山風
花を恨むる春の山風
- Roma-ji
-
Karigane no kaeru tsubasa ni kaoru nari hana o uramuru haru no yamakaze
- English Translation
-
On the homeward wings
of the wild geese flying north
fragrance lingers on—
blown by the mountain wind of spring
that holds the blossoms in spite.
- Meaning
- A fragrance clings to the wings of the geese flying home—carried by the spring mountain wind that seems to bear the blossoms a grudge.
- Commentary
-
Spring Poems 104
Headnote: "On a folding-screen painting of geese flying where blossoms are falling"
This poem responds to a screen painting of geese flying amid falling blossoms. The poet imagines the spring mountain wind that scatters the flowers transferring their scent to the wings of the geese flying north, linking two spring motifs, blossoms and geese. Kamo no Mabuchi said the fourth line is still immature.
In the Ruijū text the headnote reads "Geese flying where blossoms are falling."
Line 1 takes up "the wild geese returning" closing 102, ending the set of three poems on returning geese.
Line 2 names the wings of the geese heading north.
Line 3: nari is inferential; the poet senses the blossoms' scent clinging to the wings, and the poem pauses here.
Line 4 means scattering the blossoms as if bearing them a grudge; Mabuchi called it immature. In reverse of the topic "blossoms resent the wind" in 70, here the wind resents the blossoms.
Line 5 ends on a noun, the same closing as 40 and 72.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
- Prev Poem
-
Nagametsutsu omou mo kanashi kaeru kari yukuramu kata no yūgure no sora
- Next Poem
-
Aoniyoshi nara no yama naru yobukodori itaku na naki so kimi mo konaku ni