春と言ひ夏と過ぐして秋風の
ふきあげの浜に冬は来にけり
ふきあげの浜に冬は来にけり
- Roma-ji
-
Haru to ii natsu to sugushite akikaze no fukiage no hama ni fuyu wa kinikeri
- English Translation
-
Calling it spring,
then passing it as summer,
at Fukiage Beach
where the autumn wind blows high,
winter has come upon us.
- Meaning
- Spring I called it, then summer I passed through, and now at Fukiage Beach, where the autumn wind blew high, winter has arrived.
- Commentary
-
Winter Poems 316
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "From among poems on early winter"
Having passed through what he called spring and then summer, the poet finds that winter has come to Fukiage Beach, where the autumn wind blows high. He names the four seasons one after another within a single poem, looking back over the course of a year.
The Ruijū text places this poem in the miscellaneous section. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle. Fukiage Beach is a poetic place in Kii Province.
Line 1 means "calling it spring," and pairs with line 2 in counting off the seasons.
Line 2 means "passing it as summer."
Line 3, "the autumn wind," leads into fukiage, "blowing up," in line 4. Spring, summer, and autumn follow in order, arriving at winter in line 5.
Line 4 is hypermetric; fukiage is a pivot word meaning both the autumn wind "blowing up" and Fukiage Beach in Kii. Fukiage appears again in 357.
Line 5 is the same last line that runs from the head of the section, the fifth of the sequence. With this poem counting the four seasons through to winter, the opening sequence on winter's coming is brought to a close.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
- Prev Poem
-
Chiritsumoru ko no ha kuchinishi tanimizu mo kōri ni tozuru fuyu wa kinikeri
- Next Poem
-
Yoshinogawa momijiba nagaru taki no ue no mifune no yama ni arashi fukurashi