Kinkai wakashū 699

Composed on seeing smoke rising from the kilns of the common folk.[i]

みちのくにここにやいづくしほがまの浦とはなしに煙たつみゆ

michinoku ni
koko ni ya izuku
shiogama no
ura to wa nashi ni
keburi tatsu miyu
Where in Michinoku
Might this be?
For Shiogama
Bay ‘tis not but
I see the smoke arising.[ii]

699


[i] Sanetomo is consciously echoing the following poem here: On receiving tribute and seeing the richness of his land. たかきやにのぼりて見ればけぶりたつたみのかまどはにぎはひにけり takaki ya ni / noborite mireba / keburi tatsu / tami no kamado wa / nigiwainikeri ‘To my palace heights / I climb and when I gaze across / Smoke rises— / The homes of my people / Are rich, indeed.’ Emperor Nintoku (Shinkokinshū VII: 707)

[ii] See: Kokinshū XX: 1088.

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