山川の瀬々の岩波湧き返り
おのれ一人や身を砕くらむ
おのれ一人や身を砕くらむ
- Roma-ji
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Yamakawa no seze no iwanami wakikaeri onore hitori ya mi o kudakuramu
- English Translation
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Like the mountain stream
whose waves on the rocks of each rapid
seethe and churn,
am I the only one
who breaks myself apart?
- Meaning
- Like the waves of the mountain stream seething on the rocks of every rapid, am I alone breaking myself to pieces?
- Commentary
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Love Poems 447
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Among poems on love"
Like the waves of a mountain stream seething as they break on every rock, the poet wonders whether he alone is shattering himself with longing, and laments the beloved's indifference.
Line 1 means "of the mountain stream."
Line 2 is the same as line 4 of the preceding poem.
Line 3 means "seething up," overlaid with feeling welling in the breast.
Line 4: ya binds ramu in line 5; like onore nomi in 412, it laments that he alone suffers.
Line 5 means "do I break myself," the same last line as 412, taking up "breaking myself" from the preceding poem.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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