神無月時雨の雨の降るままに
色々になる鈴鹿山かな
色々になる鈴鹿山かな
- Roma-ji
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Kaminazuki shigure no ame no furu mama ni iroiro ni naru suzukayama kana
- English Translation
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In the Godless Month,
as the rain of winter showers
keeps on falling down,
how it turns to many hues,
this mountain of Suzuka
- Meaning
- In the Tenth Month, as the rain of the winter showers keeps falling, Mount Suzuka turns to so many different colors.
- Commentary
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Book Four Winter Poems 260
As the showers of the Tenth Month fall, the trees of Mount Suzuka turn every color, the poem says. Set on Mount Suzuka, a poetic place on the border of Ise and Ōmi, it captures the shifting hues of the mountain with each shower.
Like the opening poem of this book, 257, it begins with the line 'kaminazuki', and it shares the subject of a mountain coloring with the showers.
From poem 257 through poem 266 in this book come poems on the sights of early winter, such as showers and colored leaves.
First line, 'kaminazuki', is another name for the Tenth Month. It is the same first line as the opening poem, 257, marking the first month of winter.
Second line, 'shigure no ame no', means the rain of winter showers, restating shigure as rain and layering the two.
Third line, 'furu mama ni', means as it falls, using mama ni as in 'as the winter showers fall' in poem 257 in this book.
Fourth line, 'iroiro ni naru', means turns to many colors, showing each tree coloring in its own way.
Final line, 'suzukayama kana', is Mount Suzuka on the border of Ise and Ōmi, with the exclamatory kana. Because of the bell (suzu) in its name, Suzuka is often joined with furu, to shake, and naru, to ring, and this poem too uses the related words furu, to fall, and naru, to become.
- Source
- Kinyo Wakashu
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