夕露の玉かづらして女郎花
野原の風に折れやしぬらむ
野原の風に折れやしぬらむ
- Roma-ji
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Yūtsuyu no tamakazura shite ominaeshi nohara no kaze ni ore ya shinuramu
- English Translation
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With beads of evening dew
threaded for a jeweled crown,
the maiden flower,
in the wind across the field
has it bent and broken now
- Meaning
- Wearing the beads of evening dew like a jeweled hair ornament, has the maiden flower been snapped by the wind blowing over the field?
- Commentary
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Book Three Autumn Poems 231
The poet worries that the maiden flower, wearing beads of evening dew like a jeweled hair ornament, may have been snapped by the wind blowing over the field. Seeing the flower as a woman adorned with dewdrops, the poem sympathizes with its fragility in the wind.
The maiden flower being broken by the wind is also sung in poem 233 in this book, as 'bent and broken by the night wind'.
From poem 230 through poem 233 in this book come poems on the maiden flower, which, likened to a woman, is sung in its dealings with the white dew and the wind.
First line, 'yūtsuyu no', is the dew of evening, leading to tama, jewels, in the second line.
Second line, 'tamakazura shite', uses tamakazura, a hair ornament of jewels on a cord, likening the dewdrops to it.
Third line, 'ominaeshi', is the flower seen as a woman, placed as the subject.
Fourth line, 'nohara no kaze ni', means in the wind over the field.
Final line, 'ore ya shinuramu', means has it broken, the particle ya joining the conjectural ramu. It has the same form as 'nari ya shinuramu' in the preceding poem, 230.
- Source
- Kinyo Wakashu
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