GSS 4

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ある人のもとに、新参にひまいりの女の侍り・けるが、月日久ひさしく経へて、睦む月のついたちごろに、前まへゆるされたりけるに、雨の降ふるを見て

よみ人しらず

白雲の　うへしるけふぞ　春雨の　ふるにかひある　身とはしりぬる

Textual Notes

• にひまいりの] あたらしくいできたりける（荒・片*・堀・慶・坊）
• うへしるけふぞ] のぼれるけふぞ（荒・片・安・堀・標ィ）

Other Sources

• 古今和歌六帖 ４７７・雲

Notes

新参り

This appears to refer to the woman newly taking service. The other use of the phrase in the Imperial poetry collections is in the preface to Shikashu 407, where it refers to a gentlewoman serving an Empress: 「にひまゐりし侍りける女のまへゆるされてのち、ほどなく身まかりにければよみ給ける」 This preface may also refer a similar situation.

女の侍りけるが

The grammar of this phrase is common in the prose prefaces of the GSS. The が particle is still functioning in its old use to connect two nouns, but serves as a kind of subject marker. The clause here is "internally headed", that is, we have the woman who is newly arrived who is then allowed in the presence of the house's master.

前ゆるされ

This phrase also occurs in the Shikashu preface mentioned earlier; it seems that initially a servant would not be allowed to appear directly before the Empress or whoever she was serving.

白雲の上

The word しらくも is unvoiced -- see MYS 3602 (之良久毛). 雲の上 typically refers to the palace, but if the woman here is serving in the palace, ある人 is an unusual way to refer to the person she is serving. Given that the poem also appears in the 古今和歌六帖, it may be that the context is a fictional invention or that the context was disrupted somehow in transmission.

春雨

波流佐米 (MYS 4138).

Analysis

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