炭竈にたつ煙さへ小野山は
雪気の雲に見ゆるなりけり
雪気の雲に見ゆるなりけり
- Roma-ji
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Sumigama ni tatsu keburi sae onoyama wa yukige no kumo ni miyuru narikeri
- English Translation
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From the charcoal kilns
even the smoke that rises
on Ono Mountain
as a cloud that heralds snow
is what it seems to be
- Meaning
- On Mount Ono, even the smoke rising from the charcoal kilns looks like a cloud heavy with snow.
- Commentary
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Book Four Winter Poems 290
On Mount Ono, known for charcoal burning, even the smoke rising from the kilns looks like a cloud bringing snow. Likening the kiln smoke to snow clouds, the poem depicts a mountain village of heavy snows.
Poem 280 in this book also sings of the loneliness of winter on Mount Ono, drawing the same mountain's winter scene from another angle.
Poems 277 through 293 in this book center on snow, with poems on falconry set among them at 281 through 283.
The author, Morotoki, is Minamoto no Morotoki. A son of the Minister of the Left Minamoto no Toshifusa, he rose to Provisional Middle Counselor. He is known as the author of the diary Chōshūki and was one of the poets of the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequences.
First line, 'sumigama ni', means at the charcoal kilns, showing the charcoal burning of Mount Ono.
Second line, 'tatsu keburi sae', means even the rising smoke, the particle sae adding to what came before.
Third line, 'onoyama wa', is the mountain of Ono in Yamashiro, known for charcoal burning, also sung in poem 280 in this book.
Fourth line, 'yukige no kumo ni', means as a cloud with a sign of snow.
Final line, 'miyuru narikeri', means so it seems, closing with the exclamatory keri.
- Author
- Minamoto no Morotoki
- Source
- Kinyo Wakashu
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