夕月夜佐保の川風身にしみて
袖より過ぐる千鳥鳴くなり
袖より過ぐる千鳥鳴くなり
- Roma-ji
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Yūzukuyo saho no kawakaze mi ni shimite sode yori suguru chidori nakunari
- English Translation
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Under evening moon
the river wind of Saho
pierces to the bone,
and passing by my sleeve
I hear the plovers crying.
- Meaning
- On a night of the evening moon, the river wind of Saho chills me to the bone, and I hear the plovers crying as they pass close by my sleeve.
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 351
Headnote: "Plovers"
This poem was composed on the theme of plovers. On a night with an early evening moon, as the river wind of Saho pierces him, the poet hears plovers crying as they pass right by his sleeve. He layers the piercing chill with the voices of plovers going by close at hand.
The Ruijū text gives the headnote as "A winter poem."
Line 1 is the same as that of 314, and 353, two poems on, opens with it too.
Line 2 is the wind blowing along the Saho River in Yamato. In 341 too, the Saho riverbanks were sung with plovers crying.
Line 3 means "the cold pierces to the bone."
Line 4: yori marks the place passed through, "passing by my sleeve."
Line 5: nari is an auxiliary inferring from sound, telling that the plovers' cries are heard. Poems 354 and 357 end with the same line, so the plover poems continue.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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