紅の千入のまふり山の端に
日の入る時の空にぞありける
日の入る時の空にぞありける
- Roma-ji
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Kurenai no chishio no mafuri yama no ha ni hi no iru toki no sora ni zo arikeru
- English Translation
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Crimson, crimson,
steeped a thousand times in dye—
on the mountain's rim
as the sun goes down to rest,
such is the colour of the sky.
- Meaning
- That deep crimson, as if dyed a thousand times over, is the sky at the moment the sun sinks behind the rim of the mountains.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 697
Headnote: "Composed on seeing the sun set behind the mountain ridge"
Watching the sun set behind the mountains, the poet says the deep colour, as if crimson had been dyed a thousand times, is the very sky at sunset, depicting the vivid red of the evening sky.
The Ruijū text ends the headnote with "composed on seeing." The Jōkyō text's chishio no mari in line 2 is thought to be an error.
Line 1 means "of crimson."
Line 2 means "dyed a thousand times," chishio meaning many dips in dye and mafuri steeping it well.
Line 3 means "on the rim of the mountains."
Line 4 means "when the sun goes in."
Line 5 means "is the sky," zo concluded by keru; from the red salt-weed fire of the preceding poem it moves to the crimson of the evening sky.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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