大沢の池の水草枯れにけり
長き夜すがら霜や置くらむ
長き夜すがら霜や置くらむ
- Roma-ji
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Ōsawa no ike no mizukusa karenikeri nagaki yosugara shimo ya okuramu
- English Translation
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At Ōsawa Pond
all the water grasses
have withered away;
through the long night until dawn
does the frost lie settling there?
- Meaning
- The water grasses of Ōsawa Pond have withered; is the frost settling there all through the long night?
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 327
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Frost"
Seeing the withered water grasses of Ōsawa Pond in Saga, the poet wonders whether frost is settling there all through the long winter night. From something seen, the withered grasses, he imagines the frost of the night.
Line 1 names Ōsawa Pond at Daikaku-ji in Saga, Yamashiro, a poetic place.
Line 2 is the grasses growing in the pond.
Line 3: keri is exclamatory, and the poem pauses here. Line 3 of the next poem is the same.
Line 4 means "all through the long winter night."
Line 5 concludes the interrogative ya with the attributive of the present conjectural ramu. It shares its design with the last line of the next poem, "is the frost settling ever more?"
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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