Kokinshu 30
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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
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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
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Other sources
- 躬恒集３５９. Preface かりのこゑをききて、こしのかたにまかりはべりにしひとをこひて (Taisei versions same as KKS)
- 古来風体抄
