Koe takami kawazu naku nari ide no kawa kishi no yamabuki ima wa chiruramu

声高み蛙鳴くなり井手の川
岸の山吹今は散るらむ

Roma-ji: Koe takami kawazu naku nari ide no kawa kishi no yamabuki ima wa chiruramu
English Translation: So loud are their voices,
the frogs, I hear, are singing;
by the Ide stream
the kerria along its banks
must be scattering by now.
Meaning: The frogs are singing so loudly—by now the kerria on the banks of the Ide must be scattering.
Commentary: Spring Poems 117

Headnote: "On an occasion when I had many people compose on the theme of yellow kerria reflected in the water"
This poem was written when the poet had many people compose on "yellow kerria reflected in the water." Hearing frogs singing loudly along the Ide River, he imagines that the kerria on the banks must be falling by now, sensing the season's progress from their voices. Kamo no Mabuchi said that the mi of koe takami means "with loud voices," but the poet misunderstood it, adding that there are many such misuses of mi below.
The Ruijū text places it in the section of poems from another manuscript and the printed edition. The poem draws on the anonymous Kokinshū poem lamenting that the kerria of Ide, where frogs sing, has fallen before one could see it in bloom.

Line 1 uses noun + adjective stem + mi, "since their voices are loud"; Mabuchi called this use of mi a mistake.
Line 2: nari infers from sound, and the poem pauses here; it is the same line as in 94.
Line 3 names the Ide River, famed for frogs and kerria.
Line 4 names the kerria blooming on the banks.
Line 5: ramu conjectures about the unseen present. Where the preceding poem, 116, was sung on seeing kerria floating on the water, here the poet infers its falling from the frogs' voices.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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