山吹の花の盛りになりぬれば
井手のわたりに行かぬ日ぞなき
井手のわたりに行かぬ日ぞなき
- Roma-ji
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Yamabuki no hana no sakari ni narinureba ide no watari ni yukanu hi zo naki
- English Translation
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Now the kerria
yellow blossoms are in their prime,
since that time has come,
to the region of Ide
not a day goes by I don't go.
- Meaning
- Now that the kerria is in full bloom, not a day passes that I don't go out to Ide.
- Commentary
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Spring Poems 114
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Yellow kerria by the river"
When the kerria blooms in full, the poet says he goes out to Ide, the famous place for it, almost every day. The poem plainly reveals his love of kerria and his resolve not to miss its peak.
Line 1 opens like the preceding poem, 113.
Line 2 names the kerria's most beautiful season.
Line 3: the realis of nu with ba gives a settled condition, "since it has come into its prime"; it is the same form as in 44.
Line 4: Ide is a place in Yamashiro famed for kerria and frogs, and watari means "the area around."
Line 5: zo with the attributive of the adjective forms a kakarimusubi, stressing that he goes every day. It echoes 24, which warned against letting the plum's peak pass unseen.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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