Course 13Wakaura / Saikazaki

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Wakayama City Area, Areas Associated with the Manyo Poems

Nagusayama

The mountain blissfully stands in the eastern direction of the Wakano-ura area. There is a temple called “Kimii-dera” halfway up the mountain which is the second Fudasho (a temple that issue sacred amulets) of the pilgrimage of the Saigoku-Sanjūsansho (Saigoku 33 Kannnon Pilgrimage).

Nagusayama kotonishiarikeri agakoru chienohitoemo nagusamenakuni

I thought the mountain will give comfort to me because its name is “Nagusa-yama” * but it was only in name. It didn’t sooth any of my broken heart, not even a piece of my pain I feel inside.

(*the name sounds similar to the Japanese verb “nagusameru” meaning “to comfort someone”.)

(No7、1213)

 

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