classic waka stream

衣手に浦の松風冴えわびて
吹上の月に千鳥鳴くなり
Roma-ji

Koromode ni ura no matsukaze saewabite fukiage no tsuki ni chidori nakunari

English Translation
Against my sleeves
the pine wind of the bay
blows bitter cold,
and under Fukiage's moon
I hear the plovers crying.
Meaning
The wind in the pines of the bay blows unbearably cold against my sleeves, and beneath the moon over Fukiage I hear the plovers crying.
Commentary
Winter Poems 357

Headnote: "Plovers at a famous place"
This poem was composed on the theme of plovers at a famous place. The wind in the pines of the bay blows against the sleeves with an unbearable chill, and plovers cry beneath the moon over Fukiage Beach in Kii. At the famous beach of Fukiage, the poet brings together moon, pine wind, and plovers.

Line 1 means "against my sleeves."
Line 2 is the same as line 2 of 354.
Line 3 means "growing so cold as to be unbearable."
Line 4 is hypermetric, the moon shining on Fukiage Beach, a poetic place in Kii. Where 316 used fukiage as a pivot word, here, answering the theme of a famous place, it is sung as a place name.
Line 5 is the same last line that runs from 351, and this is the last of the plover poems.
Author
Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source
Kinkaishu
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