我が立つ杣

Japanese

Kanji in this term

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Grade: 1
そま
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Etymology

Literally “the wooded mountain where I stand”.

Noun

()()(そま) • (waga tatsu soma) 

  1. (poetic) a mountain where the first-person speaker resides
  2. (by extension, poetic) Synonym of 比叡山 (Hiei-zan): Mount Hiei, where Saichō erected Enryaku-ji, the first Tendai monastery
    • 1188, Senzai Wakashū (book 17, poem 1137; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 95)
      おほけなくうき()(たみ)おほふかなわが()(そま)(すみ)()(そで)
      ōkenaku ukiyo no tami ni ōu kana waga tatsu soma ni sumizome no sode
      Cover me with the black-dyed sleeves [of mourning] on the mountain where I stand, away from the profane and transitory world of the commonfolk.
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