東路の佐夜の中山越えていなば
いとど都や遠ざかりなむ
いとど都や遠ざかりなむ
- Roma-ji
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Azumaji no Saya no Nakayama koete inaba itodo miyako ya tōzakarinamu
- English Translation
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On the eastern road,
once I cross the pass
of Saya no Nakayama,
will the capital then fall
ever farther behind me?
- Meaning
- Once I cross Saya no Nakayama on the eastern road, will the capital grow ever more distant behind me?
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 567
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On the heart of travel"
Once over Saya no Nakayama, the hard pass on the eastern highway, the capital will be farther still. Sanetomo, living in Kamakura, takes on the heart of a traveller going east from the capital. Kamo no Mabuchi marked this poem with a sign of praise.
The Ruijū text places it among the "poems found in other and printed texts."
Line 1 means "on the eastern road."
Line 2 names Saya no Nakayama, a poetic place in Tōtōmi famed as a hard pass on the Tōkaidō.
Line 3 means "if I cross and go on."
Line 4 means "all the more the capital?" ya being interrogative, concluded by mu in line 5.
Line 5 means "will it fall away?" na being intensive.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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