初時雨降りにし日より神奈備の
杜の梢ぞ色まさりゆく
杜の梢ぞ色まさりゆく
- Roma-ji
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Hatsushigure furinishi hi yori kannabi no mori no kozue zo iro masariyuku
- English Translation
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Since the very day
the first of the winter showers fell,
in Kannabi Wood
the treetops, deeper and deeper,
are growing in their color.
- Meaning
- Ever since the day the first winter shower fell, the treetops in the sacred grove of Kannabi have been deepening in color.
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 318
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "From among poems on early winter"
Ever since the first shower of the winter fell, the poet sings, the crimson of the treetops in the grove of Kannabi has grown deeper day by day. The poem rests on the traditional poetic idea that showers dye the leaves.
The Ruijū text places this poem among the "poems found in other manuscripts and printed editions." Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle.
Line 1, hatsushigure, is the first shower of the winter.
Line 2: nishi is the perfective and past auxiliaries, "from the day it fell."
Line 3, kannabi, is a mountain or grove where a god dwells, sung as a poetic place around Tatsuta and Mimuro in Yamato. It leads to Mount Mimuro in the next poem.
Line 4: zo is a binding particle concluded in line 5.
Line 5 concludes zo with the attributive yuku, showing the treetops' color gradually deepening.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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