玉藻刈る井手の川風吹きにけり
水泡に浮かぶ山吹の花
水泡に浮かぶ山吹の花
- Roma-ji
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Tamamo karu ide no kawakaze fukinikeri minawa ni ukabu yamabuki no hana
- English Translation
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Where they cut sea-grass,
by the Ide, the river wind
has come blowing through—
floating on the water's foam,
the kerria's yellow flowers.
- Meaning
- The river wind has blown along the Ide where they cut the jeweled water-weed—and now kerria blossoms float on the foam.
- Commentary
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Spring Poems 116
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on yellow kerria"
The wind has blown along the Ide, and kerria petals float away on the foam of the water. The conceit is that the poet knows the wind has blown from the sight of petals floating on the foam. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle.
This poem was included in the Shokushūi Wakashū.
Line 1 opens like the preceding poem, 115, modifying Ide.
Line 2 names the wind blowing over the Ide River.
Line 3: keri expresses realization that the wind has blown, and the poem pauses here.
Line 4: minawa is foam on the water, echoing the comparison of cherry petals to foam in 78 and 79.
Line 5 is the same closing as the preceding poem. Where 115 sang of kerria blooming in the shallows, this one sings of kerria fallen and floating, pairing blooming flowers with fallen ones.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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