classic waka stream

古りにける朱の玉垣神さびて
破れたる御簾に松風ぞ吹く
Roma-ji

Furinikeru ake no tamagaki kamisabite yaretaru misu ni matsukaze zo fuku

English Translation
Grown old with the years,
the vermilion sacred fence
has turned venerable,
and through the tattered blinds
the wind in the pines is blowing.
Meaning
The vermilion fence of the shrine has grown old and venerable, and the wind in the pines blows through the tattered blinds.
Commentary
Miscellaneous Poems 642

Headnote: "Wind in the pines at the shrine"
The old vermilion fence of the shrine has grown more venerable, and the wind in the pines blows through the torn blinds. In the loneliness of a neglected shrine, the poet finds the solemnity of a sacred place that has passed through long years.
The Ruijū text places it in its section on the gods. The beginnings of lines 1 and 4 are hard to read in the source as displayed and are here read furinikeru and yaretaru.

Line 1 means "grown old."
Line 2 means "the vermilion sacred fence" around a shrine.
Line 3 means "turned venerable," the same word as in line 5 of 628 of this book.
Line 4 means "on the torn blinds," showing the shrine's decay.
Line 5 means "the wind in the pines blows," zo concluded by fuku; like the screen poems 585 to 588 of this book ending in matsukaze, it entrusts loneliness to the wind in the pines.
Author
Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source
Kinkaishu
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