千々の春万の秋に長らへて
月と花とを君ぞ見るべき
月と花とを君ぞ見るべき
- Roma-ji
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Chiji no haru yorozu no aki ni nagaraete tsuki to hana to o kimi zo mirubeki
- English Translation
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Through a thousand springs
and ten thousand autumns
living on and on,
the moon and the blossoms
my lord shall behold.
- Meaning
- Living on through a thousand springs and ten thousand autumns, my lord shall gaze upon the moon and the blossoms.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 668
Headnote: "A poem of felicitation"
A poem of felicitation, it blesses the lord's long life: he will live through a thousand springs and ten thousand autumns, gazing always at the spring blossoms and the autumn moon.
It was included in the imperial anthology Gyokuyō Wakashū. The Ruijū text places it in its section of celebration, and the text transmitted by Teika differs by one letter in line 4. Kamo no Mabuchi called "the moon and the blossoms" a later phrase.
Line 1 means "a thousand springs."
Line 2 means "ten thousand autumns," paired with line 1.
Line 3 means "living long."
Line 4 means "the moon and the blossoms," taking up spring and autumn of lines 1 and 2 in reverse order.
Line 5 means "my lord shall see," zo concluded by beki.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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