山吹の花のしづくに袖濡れて
昔おぼゆる玉川の里
昔おぼゆる玉川の里
- Roma-ji
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Yamabuki no hana no shizuku ni sode nurete mukashi oboyuru tamagawa no sato
- English Translation
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From the kerria's
yellow blossoms dripping dew,
my sleeves have grown wet;
how the past comes back to me—
the village of Tamagawa.
- Meaning
- My sleeves wet with drops from the yellow kerria blossoms, the village of Tamagawa brings back the days of old.
- Commentary
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Spring Poems 113
Headnote: "Yellow kerria by the river"
At the village of Tamagawa in Ide, famed for yellow kerria, the poet wets his sleeves with drops from the kerria blossoms and is reminded of the past. In the kerria and the clear Tamagawa stream he overlays a longing for the old days of a famous place sung in classic poems. Kerria poems continue from here. Kamo no Mabuchi said the fourth line is still immature.
Line 1 names yamabuki, the kerria of the topic, opening the group of kerria poems.
Line 2, "the blossoms' drops," is the same phrase used for the mountain cherry in 53, now applied to kerria.
Line 3 names sleeves wet with the drops, suggesting tears of nostalgia as well.
Line 4: oboyu means to come to mind; Mabuchi judged this line immature.
Line 5 ends on a noun, naming the village of Tamagawa at Ide in Yamashiro. The kerria of Ide continues in the next poems from 114 on.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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