山賤の垣穂に咲ける撫子の
花の心を知る人のなき
花の心を知る人のなき
- Roma-ji
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Yamagatsu no kakiho ni sakeru nadeshiko no hana no kokoro o shiru hito no naki
- English Translation
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The wild pinks that bloom
by the brushwood fences of
the mountain rustics—
the heart of such a flower
is known to no one at all.
- Meaning
- No one knows the heart of the wild pinks blooming by the fences of the mountain rustics.
- Commentary
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Love Poems 555
Headnote: "On the words "would I might see her even now ... the mountain rustic's""
Like the pinks blooming quietly by the fence of a mountain rustic, the poet's secret love is known to no one. It is composed on a phrase from the Kokinshū poem longing to see again the wild pink blooming by a rustic's fence.
The Ruijū text places it in the section of poems found in another manuscript and in printed editions. According to the notes in the base text, the original manuscript drops no from yamagatsu no in the headnote.
Line 1 means "of the mountain rustics," the same word as line 3 of 438.
Line 2 means "blooming by the fences," the same as in the source poem.
Line 3 means "of the pinks," nadeshiko suggesting a dear one; the same word as line 1 of 533.
Line 4 means "the heart of the flower," overlaid with the poet's unknown love.
Line 5 means "there is no one who knows," ending in the attributive form with exclamation.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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