長浜の真砂の数も何ならず
尽きせず見ゆる君が御代かな
尽きせず見ゆる君が御代かな
- Roma-ji
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Nagahama no masago no kazu mo nani narazu tsukisezu miyuru kimi ga miyo kana
- English Translation
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Nagahama's sands,
the number of their grains
is as nothing at all,
so endless does it appear,
the reign of our lord
- Meaning
- Even the countless grains of sand on the beach of Nagahama are as nothing; our lord's reign looks as though it will never end.
- Commentary
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Book Five Celebration Poems 331
Even the grains of sand at Nagahama, held to be beyond counting, are as nothing, so endlessly does the sovereign's reign seem to stretch on. Drawing on the Kokinshū poem of Ise Province for the Great Thanksgiving, which says the reign will have no end though one count every grain of sand at Nagahama, it celebrates the boundless reign by citing those sands.
Poem 325 in this book shares its first two lines with that same Kokinshū poem, while this poem takes up the sands of Nagahama from its lower half.
From poem 329 through poem 332 in this book come poems, centered on snow and pines, celebrating a reign without end.
First line, 'nagahama no', means of Nagahama, the beach sung in the Kokinshū poem of Ise Province.
Second line, 'masago no kazu mo', means even the number of the sands, a figure for the countless. Like 'the rising dust' in poem 320 in this book, it shows the length of the reign through something countless.
Third line, 'nani narazu', means is as nothing. The poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, 'tsukisezu miyuru', means seeming endless.
Final line, 'kimi ga miyo kana', is the same final line as poems 319 and 320 in this book, with the exclamatory kana.
- Source
- Kinyo Wakashu
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