袖枕霜置く床の苔の上に
明かすばかりのさよの中山
明かすばかりのさよの中山
- Roma-ji
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Sodemakura shimo oku toko no koke no ue ni akasu bakari no Sayo no Nakayama
- English Translation
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My sleeve for pillow,
on a bed where frost has fallen,
upon the moss
I can only wait for dawn
at Sayo no Nakayama.
- Meaning
- With my sleeve for a pillow, on a bed of moss where frost has settled, I can do nothing but wait out the night at Sayo no Nakayama.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 580
Headnote: "Frost at a lodging on a journey"
At Sayo no Nakayama, with his sleeve for a pillow, the poet can only lie awake on frosty moss until dawn. The place name sayo echoes sayo, "night," drawing a night too cold for sleep.
The Ruijū text places it in its travel section. Kamo no Mabuchi called sodemakura a later word, and noted that the pass should properly be Saya no Nakayama, reading it sayo being a mistake.
Line 1 means "sleeve for a pillow."
Line 2 means "of the bed where frost settles."
Line 3 means "upon the moss," recalling the "pillow of moss" of 578.
Line 4 means "only spending the night awake."
Line 5 names Sayo no Nakayama in Tōtōmi, sayo also meaning "night"; it ends on a noun, and the place also appears in 567 of this book.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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