津の国のこやの丸屋の葦簾
間遠になりぬ行き合はずして
間遠になりぬ行き合はずして
- Roma-ji
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Tsu no kuni no Koya no maruya no ashisudare madō ni narinu yukiawazu shite
- English Translation
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In the land of Tsu,
at a hut in Koya,
the reed blinds hang—
so sparse our meetings now,
never coming together.
- Meaning
- Like the coarse reed blinds of a rough hut at Koya in the land of Tsu, our meetings have grown far between, and we never come together.
- Commentary
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Love Poems 543
Headnote: "Love, on blinds"
As the reed blinds hung in a rough hut at Koya in Settsu are coarsely woven, the beloved's visits have grown far between and they do not meet.
Kamo no Mabuchi marked this poem with a circle.
Line 1 means "of the land of Tsu," that is, Settsu.
Line 2 plays on Koya, the place, and koya, "hut": a rough hut.
Line 3 names blinds of woven reed, whose coarse weave leads to madō.
Line 4 means "it has grown far between," overlaying the sparse weave and infrequent visits; the same word as in 502. The poem pauses here.
Line 5 means "without meeting," the same last line as 492.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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