五月雨を幣に手向けて三熊野の
山時鳥鳴きとよむなり
山時鳥鳴きとよむなり
- Roma-ji
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Samidare o nusa ni tamukete Mikumano no yamahototogisu nakitoyomunari
- English Translation
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The rains of summer
offering up as sacred strips,
in Mikumano
the mountain cuckoo sings
and fills the air with its voice.
- Meaning
- Offering the early summer rains to the god as sacred streamers, the mountain cuckoo of Kumano seems to make the hills ring with its song.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 635
Headnote: "A cuckoo at the shrine"
As if offering the long early-summer rains to the god as sacred streamers, the mountain cuckoo of Kumano fills the hills with its voice. After snow likened to paper streamers in the preceding poem, here the rain is likened to offerings.
The Ruijū text places it in its summer section. One letter of line 2 is hard to read in the source as displayed and is here read nusa ni tamukete.
Line 1 means "the early summer rains."
Line 2 means "offering them as streamers," the lines of rain seen as offerings; it answers the snow seen as shide in the preceding poem.
Line 3 means "of Kumano," taking up mikumano from the preceding poem.
Line 4 means "the mountain cuckoo."
Line 5 means "seems to make the air ring," nari expressing inference from sound.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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