比良の山山風寒み唐崎の
鳰の湖月ぞ凍れる
鳰の湖月ぞ凍れる
- Roma-ji
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Hira no yama yamakaze samumi karasaki no nio no mizuumi tsuki zo kōreru
- English Translation
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From Hira's peaks
the mountain wind blows cold,
and at Karasaki
on the waters of Lake Nio
the moon itself has frozen.
- Meaning
- So cold is the wind from Mount Hira that at Karasaki, on the waters of Lake Nio, even the moon has frozen.
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 340
Headnote: "Winter moon over a lake"
This poem was composed on the theme of the winter moon over a lake. The wind blowing down from Mount Hira is so cold that at Karasaki even the moon reflected in Lake Biwa has frozen. The poet takes the moonlight caught in the lake's ice as the moon itself frozen.
The Ruijū text gives the headnote as "On the winter moon over a lake" and lines 2 and 3 as yamakaze samuki karasaki ya. The Teika text gives lines 3 and 4 as karasaki ya nio no mizuumi ni. In the source a full stop follows line 5, which has been removed as it is not part of the poem. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle.
Line 1 names Mount Hira rising on the western shore of Lake Biwa in Ōmi, a poetic place.
Line 2 uses mi to show cause, "because the mountain wind is cold," the "mountain" of line 1 echoed in yamakaze.
Line 3 names Karasaki on the western shore of Lake Biwa, a poetic place.
Line 4, nio no mizuumi, is another name for Lake Biwa. Against the pond's moon in the preceding poem, this sings the moon on a lake.
Line 5 concludes the binding particle zo with ru, the attributive of the continuative ri, declaring that even the moon is frozen.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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