GSS 675

Text

女のもとよりかへりて、あしたにつかはしける

源重光朝臣

かへりけむ　そらもしられず　をばすての　山よりいでし　月を見しまに

Translation

He returned from a woman's place, and sent this the next morning.

Lord Minamoto no Shigemitsu

I do not know the sky (2) / under which I seem to be returning (1). / While I look at the moon (5) / arising from behind the (4) / Grandmother-Abandoning Mountain (3).

Textual Notes

• Teika's note: 代明親王一男　康保元参議　元中将　後大納言　長徳四年薨
• 詞書ナシ（堀）
• をばすての] おばすてや（白）
• いでし] いづる（堀・承・正ィ・慶）
• 月を見しまに] 月はみしかど（堀・荒・片・坊・白・承・正*）

Other Sources

• 五代歌枕 (4th line 山よりいづる)　歌枕名寄

Notes

おばすての山

A mountain in Shinano province associated with legends of a man abandoning his mother there. Kigin cited the locus classicus KKS poem (878), although 加藤 questioned Norinaga as to whether this was actually referencing the poem. Norinaga seemed to think it was, and later commenters agree, although the degree of connection is open to question.

Analysis

「歌の心は女のつれなきに慰めかねて、帰し空も覚えざりしとなり」（八代集抄）Nakayama tentatively agrees with this but then offers a reading of his own attributed to an unknown person -- the "abandonment" is the man abandoning the woman as he leaves for the morning. Kifune agrees with this.