片敷きの衣手いたく冴えわびぬ
雪深き夜の峰の松風
雪深き夜の峰の松風
- Roma-ji
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Katashiki no koromode itaku saewabinu yuki fukaki yo no mine no matsukaze
- English Translation
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My sleeve spread alone,
the cuff of my robe is chilled
past all enduring—
on this night of deepest snow,
the wind through the pines on the peak.
- Meaning
- The sleeve I have spread to sleep alone is chilled beyond enduring: the wind in the pines on the peak on this night of deep snow.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 585
Headnote: "On a painting on a folding screen showing many travellers in snowfall in the mountains"
Looking at a screen painting of travellers in the snowy mountains, the poet speaks as one of them: his lonely sleeve is bitterly cold, and on this deep-snow night the wind from the pines on the peak beats down.
The Ruijū text places it in its travel section with the headnote "A scene of travellers lying down in the snowy mountains." Kamo no Mabuchi judged the phrase saewabinu poor.
Line 1 means "sleeping alone on one spread sleeve."
Line 2 means "the sleeve of my robe, severely."
Line 3 means "is chilled past bearing," with a break after the line; it echoes "I cannot manage to cross" in 583.
Line 4 means "of the night of deep snow."
Line 5 means "the wind in the pines on the peak," ending on a noun; the screen poems that follow, 586, 587 and 588, also end with the wind in the pines.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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