散り積もる木の葉朽ちにし谷水も
氷に閉づる冬は来にけり
氷に閉づる冬は来にけり
- Roma-ji
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Chiritsumoru ko no ha kuchinishi tanimizu mo kōri ni tozuru fuyu wa kinikeri
- English Translation
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Where the scattered leaves
lying deep have rotted through,
the valley waters
are now shut in by the ice—
winter has come upon us.
- Meaning
- Even the valley stream, where fallen leaves have piled up and rotted away, is now sealed in ice—winter has come.
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 315
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "From among poems on early winter"
The poet sings that winter has come, sealing in ice even the valley stream where fallen leaves lay heaped and rotting. Where the preceding poems showed leaves falling, this one carries the season further, to leaves decayed and water frozen.
The Ruijū text gives line 4 as kōrite tozuru, but this edition follows the source text.
Line 1, "scattered and piled up," modifies the leaves.
Line 2 means "the leaves have rotted away," carrying further the falling leaves of 312 and 313.
Line 3 is the water flowing in the valley; mo adds "even the valley stream, not only the leaves."
Line 4 means "shut in by ice." The same phrase appears in line 2 of 337.
Line 5 is the same last line that runs from the head of the section, the fourth of the sequence.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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