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
破れたる御簾に松風ぞ吹く
- Roma-ji
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Furinikeru ake no tamagaki kamisabite yaretaru misu ni matsukaze zo fuku
- English Translation
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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
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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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