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かりのこゑをきヽて、こしへまかりける人を思てよめる

凡河内躬恒

春くれば　かりかへるなり　白雲の　道行ぶりに　事やつてまし

こし: 越, an area of Japan north of Kyoto that included Echizen, Etchu, and Echigo. The geese are flying north, so Mitsune imagines them going to Koshi where his friend is.

まかりける: まかる is used of travel from the capital (or within Heian, from the palace).

かへるなり: This なり is the so-called 伝聞 suffix which indicates the poet hears the cry of the returning geese.

白雲の道: The "cloud road"; depicting the geese as returning on a road the way a person might. At some point, Edo-period commentators got the idea that 白雪 was a variant reading or even the correct reading, despite it appearing in no extant manuscripts. Perhaps there was a garbled transmission based on the idea that the 道行き was wordplay with 雪.

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 = Notes =
+;こし
+:越, an area of Japan north of Kyoto that included Echizen, Etchu, and Echigo. The geese are flying north, so Mitsune imagines them going to Koshi where his friend is.
+;まかりける
+:まかる is used of travel from the capital (or within Heian, from the palace).
+;かへるなり
+:This なり is the so-called 伝聞 suffix which indicates the poet hears the cry of the returning geese.
+;白雲の道
+:The "cloud road"; depicting the geese as returning on a road the way a person might. At some point, Edo-period commentators got the idea that 白雪 was a variant reading or even the correct reading, despite it appearing in no extant manuscripts. Perhaps there was a garbled transmission based on the idea that the 道行き was wordplay with 雪.
+;道行きぶり
+:
 = Analysis =