まきの戸をあさけの雲の衣手に
雪を吹き巻く山嵐の風
雪を吹き巻く山嵐の風
- Roma-ji
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Maki no to o asake no kumo no koromode ni yuki o fukimaku yamaarashi no kaze
- English Translation
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As I open wide
the cedar door at break of day,
into my sleeves
it whirls the snow amid the clouds—
the storm wind from the mountains.
- Meaning
- As I open the cedar door at dawn amid the clouds, the storm wind from the mountains whirls snow into my sleeves.
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 371
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Snow"
At dawn, as the poet opens his cedar door amid the trailing clouds, the storm wind from the mountains drives the snow against his sleeves and whirls it up. He catches the violence of snow and wind that rush in the moment the door is opened.
According to the source's note, the Teika text gives line 2 as asa ake no kumo no and line 5 as yamaoroshi no kaze, and the Ruijū text gives line 5 as yamaoroshi no kaze with different characters. This edition follows the source text.
Line 1 is a door of cedar or cypress planks, leading to asake in line 2 through the sense of opening the door.
Line 2: asake is a pivot word meaning both "daybreak" and "opening" the door.
Line 3 means "into my sleeves."
Line 4 means "blowing the snow and whirling it up."
Line 5 is hypermetric and ends on a noun. The next poem ends with the same "storm wind from the mountains," so two poems sing the snowy wind from the mountains.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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