唐衣着馴の里に君を置きて
しま松の木の待てば苦しも
しま松の木の待てば苦しも
- Roma-ji
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Karagoromo Kinare no sato ni kimi o okite shima matsu no ki no mateba kurushi mo
- English Translation
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Chinese robe—
leaving you behind me in
the village of Kinare,
like the island's pine, I wait,
and oh, the waiting hurts.
- Meaning
- Having left you in the village of Kinare, I wait like the pine on the island, and the waiting is painful.
- Commentary
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Love Poems 474
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on the theme of love at famous places"
Having left his beloved in the village of Kinare, the poet waits like the pine whose name means "wait," and finds the waiting painful. Taking up mate from the preceding poem, it continues the pain of waiting love.
The Ruijū text places it in the section of poems found in another manuscript and in printed editions.
Line 1, karagoromo, "Chinese robe," is a pillow word for kinare through ki, "to wear."
Line 2 means "in the village of Kinare," playing on growing used to a robe and the place name.
Line 3 means "leaving you," with an extra syllable.
Line 4 means "like the pine tree of the island," leading from matsu to mate.
Line 5 means "how painful the waiting," mo exclamatory; mateba is the same word as in line 5 of the preceding poem.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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