Shuishu 1
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抄
平定文が家の歌合によみ侍りける
Read at Taira no Sadafun's Poetry Competition
壬生忠岑
Mibu no Tadamine
はるたつと いふばかりにや 三吉野の 山もかすみて けさは見ゆらん
Is it just from saying (2) / "spring has come" (1) / That Holy Yoshino / Mountain, even, is wrapped in haze / how it looks this morning?
- 平定文が家の歌合
- Held on 4/28/905. The rounds were mostly seasonal with a few love poems. A total of 40 poems were matched, 9 of which ended up in the SIS. Tadamine's poem was matched against SIS 8 by Mitsune; they tied.
- や...らん
- This grammatical structure guesses at the reason for some observation
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Other sources:
- 拾遺抄１
- 古今和歌六帖４・春立つ日・ただみね
- 金玉集２ 和漢朗詠集８ (last line けふはみゆらん) 三十人撰 (last line けふはみゆらん) 三十六人撰 深窓秘抄 (last line けふはみゆらん) 九品和歌
- 忠岑集１６４
- 藤川五百首１５１ note (Teika's poem: 秋きぬといふばかりにや蓬生に朝けの風の心かはれり)
- 左兵衛佐定文歌合１, vs. SIS 8, tie.
- 前後十五番歌合７ 俊成三十六人歌合５２ 時代不同歌合１１５
- 秘蔵抄 俊頼髄脳 奥儀抄 瑩玉集 色葉和歌集 五代歌枕 歌枕名寄 玉伝集和歌最頂 和歌密書 歌林良材
- 秀歌大体 古来風体抄 近代秀歌 詠歌大体 詠歌一体 三五記 井蛙抄 沙石集 定家八代抄 八代集秀逸
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題しらず
Topic unknown
大伴家持
Otomo no Yakamochi
春ののに あさるきぎすの つまごひに おのがありかを 人にしれつつ
In the spring field / the pheasant searching out food / its cries for its mate / make known to people (5) / its own dwelling place (4).
- (Teika's note) 万
- つまごひに] つまごひて（八イ）
- つまごひに
- The cry of the pheasant is poetically interpreted here as the bird crying out longing for its mate. 「妻を恋い慕って鳴き立て」（新体系）
- しれつつ
- る here is a passive, an alternate for らる.「しられつつといふ事也」(能因歌枕, 僻案抄). The つつ indicates repeated activity.
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In the setting of the SIS, this poem focuses on the scene of a field with a crying bird. It is a slight variant of a MYS original that also is classified as a spring poem. However, it may also have a hidden love meaning as well. Some commentaries suggest a secondary meaning of destroying one's own body for love, possibly due to the 人 being interpreted as a hunter that will find the bird due to its cries. 「或人云：春の野の草深き中に住むきぎすの、人に知られずしてあるべきを、声をたつるによりて、その在処を表すなり。なまじに声をたつるといへば、妻を恋ふるによりてはり。さて、そ狩人にも得られて命をも失ふものにて侍る鳥といへども、はかなき恋に身を亡ぼす哀れなるならひなり。「人にしれつつ」とばかりよみて、後に狩人にあはんといふことをばいひ残したる詞なり。上古の歌は深く思い入りたる心あるゆへに、詞には足らぬぞ多かる。よくよく味はふべきなり」（増抄）「恋のために身を滅ぼす、という余情がある」（新体系）
This poem was favored by Kinto and included in several of his collections of good poetry, but not in the Shuisho itself. Teika also included it in his late Teika hachidaisho collection of good poetry.
There are several other poems that are quite close in meaning to this poem or are perhaps using this poem as a 本歌:
- 古今和歌六帖１１７８ is perhaps a variant of this poem rewritten to eliminate some of the Nara-period language: 春ののにあさなくきじのつまごひにおのがありかを人にしられて
- 古今和歌六帖６７０ 霞たつこせの春野になくきぎすいつかありかを人にしらるる
- 古今和歌集１０３３ 平貞文 春の野のしげき草ばのつまごひにとびたつきじのほろろとぞなく
- 玉葉和歌集１１３ 鎌倉右大臣 おのがつま恋ひわびにけり春の野にあさるきぎすの朝な朝な鳴く
- 万葉集 v8, １４５０. Prose preface 大伴宿祢家持春雉歌一首. Text: 春野尓（ハルノノニ） 安佐留雉乃（アサルキギスノ） 妻恋尓（ツマゴヒニ） 己我当乎（オノガアタリヲ） 人尓令知管（ヒトニシレツツ）
- 赤人集１１６. Fifth line 人にしられつつ.
- 金玉集 三十人集 三十六人集 深窓秘抄 定家八代抄
- 能因歌枕 隆源口伝 袖中抄 色葉和難集