いづくにて世をば尽くさむ菅原や
伏見の里も荒れぬと言ふものを
伏見の里も荒れぬと言ふものを
- Roma-ji
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Izuku nite yo o ba tsukusamu Sugawara ya Fushimi no sato mo arenu to iu mono o
- English Translation
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Where shall I live out
all the days of my life?
At Sugawara,
even the village of Fushimi
has fallen to ruin, they say.
- Meaning
- Where shall I live out my days? They say even the village of Fushimi at Sugawara has fallen into ruin.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 686
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Among miscellaneous poems"
Where shall I end my days, the poet asks, when even the village of Fushimi at Sugawara, a place of quiet retreat, has fallen to ruin? Following the depths of Yoshino in the preceding poem, it laments finding no place to shelter. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a sign of praise.
It takes as its source the anonymous Kokinshū poem resolving to spend one's life at the village of Fushimi in Sugawara and grieving that it may fall to ruin.
Line 1 means "where."
Line 2 means "shall I spend my life?" mu expressing will, with a break after the line.
Line 3 means "O Sugawara," in Yamato, ya exclamatory.
Line 4 means "even the village of Fushimi," in the same form as "even the depths of Yoshino" in the preceding poem.
Line 5 means "has gone to ruin, they say," mono o adversative and exclamatory; it turns the source poem's fear of ruin into ruin already come.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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