うちつけに物ぞ悲しき初瀬山
尾上の鐘の雪の夕暮れ
尾上の鐘の雪の夕暮れ
- Roma-ji
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Uchitsuke ni mono zo kanashiki hatsuseyama onoe no kane no yuki no yūgure
- English Translation
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Of a sudden now
how sad all things have grown:
at Hatsuse Hill
the bell upon the summit
in the snowy dusk of evening.
- Meaning
- Of a sudden, everything has turned so sorrowful—the bell ringing from the summit of Mount Hatsuse in the snowy dusk.
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 382
Headnote: "Evening snow near a temple"
This poem was composed on the theme of evening snow near a temple. In the snowy dusk, as the bell rings from the temple on the summit of Mount Hatsuse, a sudden sorrow comes over the poet. Bell, snow, and evening overlap in a grief that strikes the heart without warning.
The Teika text lacks line 5. Kamo no Mabuchi commented that "snowy dusk" is a phrase of later times unsuited to this poet, that treating it as a restricted phrase is beneath discussion, and that anyone who loves the old style would not use it even if told to.
Line 1 means "suddenly, without warning."
Line 2 concludes the binding particle zo with the attributive of an adjective, and the poem pauses here.
Line 3 names Mount Hatsuse in Yamato, home to Hase-dera. Poem 311, the close of Book Three, sang the end of autumn with the evening bell of Hatsuse; here the bell of the same mountain sings a snowy dusk.
Line 4 means "the bell upon the summit."
Line 5 is the same as that of 375, the phrase Mabuchi called later in style. The next poem ends with the same line.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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