故郷の池の藤波誰植ゑて
昔忘れぬ形見なるらむ
昔忘れぬ形見なるらむ
- Roma-ji
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Furusato no ike no fujinami tare uete mukashi wasurenu katami naruramu
- English Translation
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At the old homestead
the wisteria on the pond—
who planted it there,
that it lives on as a keepsake
unforgetting of the past?
- Meaning
- Who planted the wisteria by the pond of my old home, that it lives on as a keepsake that has not forgotten the past?
- Commentary
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Spring Poems 112
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Wisteria by the pond"
Seeing wisteria blooming by the pond of a ruined old home, the poet wonders who planted it and why it still blooms as a keepsake that does not forget the past. The planter is gone, yet the flowers keep blooming—a poem of nostalgia. Kamo no Mabuchi said the fourth line is still immature.
Line 1 takes up, with wisteria, the old-home topic sung often in this section.
Line 2 is the same line as in the preceding poem, 111, moving from the pond at the poet's house to the pond of the old home.
Line 3 means "who planted it," suggesting the planter's absence.
Line 4 is the same phrase as the plum's "scent unforgetting of the past" in 31; Mabuchi judged it immature.
Line 5: ramu conjectures a cause, guessing that the flowers have become a keepsake of the past.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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