笹の葉に霰さやぎてみ山辺の
嶺の木枯らししきりて吹きぬ
嶺の木枯らししきりて吹きぬ
- Roma-ji
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Sasa no ha ni arare sayagite miyamabe no mine no kogarashi shikirite fukinu
- English Translation
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On the bamboo leaves
the hailstones clatter loudly,
and from the mountain's
high peaks the withering wind
has blown on without ceasing.
- Meaning
- Hail clatters on the bamboo leaves, and the bitter wind from the mountain peaks has blown without ceasing.
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 350
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Hail"
Hail clatters as it falls on the bamboo leaves, and the withering wind from the mountain peaks has blown without pause. Like the preceding poem, this sings hail falling on bamboo leaves, adding the wind from the peaks to portray the wildness of the winter mountains.
The Ruijū text places this poem among the "poems found in other manuscripts and printed editions" and gives line 5 as shikirite zo fuku. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle.
Line 1 opens with the same "bamboo leaves" as the preceding poem, carrying on the hail poems.
Line 2: sayagu means "to rustle, to clatter."
Line 3 means "about the mountain," with mi an honorific prefix.
Line 4 is the cold, strong wind blowing from the peaks.
Line 5 means "it blew incessantly," stated firmly with the perfective nu.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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