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梅が香にのつと日の出る山路かな mume ga ka ni notto hi no deru yamaji kana Bashō - In the plum blossom scent, the sun pops out, a mountain path

梅が香にのつと日の出る山路かな (mume ga ka ni notto hi no deru yamaji kana) is Bashō's verse of a sudden sunrise on a plum-scented mountain path. It opened a sequence he composed with his disciple Yaba in 1694, printed that summer in 炭俵. This study follows Shikō's reading in Bashō's presence, the later commentaries and the English since 1932.

Japanese Scroll of Bashō - In the plum blossom scent, the sun pops out, a mountain path (mume ga ka ni notto hi no deru yamaji kana) — Calligraphy by Eri Takase
Bashō - In the plum blossom scent, the sun pops out, a mountain path梅が香にのつと日の出る山路かなmume ga ka ni notto hi no deru yamaji kana

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Abstract

梅が香にのつと日の出る山路かな, in the scent of plum, all at once the sun comes up: a mountain path, is the hokku of a sequence Bashō composed with his disciple Yaba 野坡 in Edo in the early spring of 1694, and it opens the anthology 炭俵, printed that summer [1]. It was read in Bashō's presence within months: in Kyoto that summer his disciple Shikō 支考 named the verse's morning sun the lingering cold of early spring, and Bashō said that was very good, as Shikō's 笈日記 records in 1695 [2]; every witness gives the verse to Bashō. Later commentary added a moral reading in 1698 and a grammatical one in 1912, Numanami's, that に marks where the scent is and not its cause [3]. English translators have carried it since Miyamori in 1932, most keeping Bashō's order: scent, then sun, then path.

Overview

The text. The scroll brushes 梅が香にのっと日の出る山路かな, writing the small っ of modern kana where the early witnesses write のつと. The first print of 1694 writes むめかゝにのつと日乃出る山路かな, むめ for 梅 and an iteration mark for the second か [1]; Hagiwara's critical text of 1929 prints むめがかに [4], and Ebara's edition of 1947 むめがゝに, tagged 炭俵 [5]. Shikō's 笈日記 already writes 梅が香に in 1695 [2], and after it the kanji form holds: 梅か香に in the 1774 Chōmu collection [6] and the 1909 芭蕉句選 [7], 梅か香にのツと with a katakana ツ in the 1927 dictionary [8], 梅が香に in the modern prints. The last word is 哉 in the 1909 句選, one Edo manual [9] and Sekisui's commentary [10], and かな in the rest. Two scans are not variants: the 1896 reprint scans as 梅が香り [11], and the 1848 犬註解 as 梅か手つに [12]. No witness varies a word. Romanized from the source's kana the first word is mume, as Higginson [13], Hamill [14] and Shirane's grammar [15] write it; the other translators write the modern ume. The meter is five, seven, five: む・め・が・か・に, の・っ・と・ひ・の・で・る, や・ま・じ・か・な.

The sense. The verse has had one sense and three readings of it. The sense is plum scent on a mountain path at dawn, and the sun all at once. The first reading was made in Bashō's presence. In the summer of 1694, at the 桃花坊 in Kyoto, Shikō proposed a collection on the model of the poetics book 桐火桶 and gave this verse and another of Bashō's as a pair: 梅が香の朝日は餘寒なるべし、小なぎの鮠のわたは殘暑なるべし, the morning sun in the plum scent must be the lingering cold; the minnow's guts on the water-leeks must be the lingering heat; and 阿叟もいとよしとは申されし也, the old master said that was very good [2]. The second reading is moral: 篇突 in 1698 set the verse beside 菊の香や庭に切れたる沓の底 and wrote 梅が香の朝日は陽に向て仁德を發し, the morning sun in the plum scent turns toward the yang and puts forth benevolence, as Sekisui quotes it [10]. An Edo manual filed the verse under 無心躰, the artless style [9]. The third reading is grammatical: Numanami 沼波 in 1912 argued that に is place and not cause, so the sun does not rise because of the scent but where it is [3]. Miyamori in 1932 called it generally counted among Bashō's best verses and a supreme masterpiece of realistic description [16]. Blyth heard synesthesia, he had smelled the sun, had seen the scent of the plum-blossoms, and put the suddenness in the poet's mind rather than the sky [17]. Shida 志田, as Ueda gives him, called it one of the most representative verses that show Bashō's idea of karumi [18]; Miner and Odagiri set it among the late hokku whose plainness seems to lighten the form [19]; Shirane reads it as the hokku of a sequence, with the pheasants of Yaba's 脇 flying up at the footsteps [20]; Fitzsimons calls it a poem often used to illustrate Bashō's idea of karumi: plain in theme, light in tone, yet evocative, and sets it as a poem of lingering cold against Bashō's poems of lingering heat [21], which is Shikō's pairing again.

The words. 梅が香, in the first print's kana むめがゝ, is the scent of plum, the early-spring season word. The season of the verse is 余寒, lingering cold: Shikō names it so in 1695 with Bashō's approval [2], and Shirane's note and Fitzsimons's say the same [20] [21]. に is the crux the commentators name: Numanami in 1912 reads it as place, 梅が香のする所で … このには場所を示す働きをして居る, where the scent is; this に marks the place [3]. のつと, notto, is suddenly, with a lurch: the 日本国語大辞典 defines it as appearing before one's eyes unexpectedly, the same as ぬっと, and gives this verse as its first example of the word [22]; Blyth calls it the "jerk" to the mind of the poet of his impressions, rather than the suddenness of the sun rising [17]; Shirane, a colloquial adverb with a roundish, warm sound [20]. 日の出る山路 is the mountain path where the sun comes up, and かな the exclamation. As words the line says: In the scent of plum, all at once the sun comes up: a mountain path.

The verse in English. Miyamori translated the verse in 1932 [16] and Yasuda in 1947 [23] and again in 1957 [24]; Blyth in 1950 [17], 1963 [25] and 1964 [26]; Henderson in 1958 [27]; Buchanan in 1973 [28]; Miner in 1979 [29], and Miner and Odagiri [19] and Sato and Watson [30] with the whole sequence in 1981; Shigematsu in 1988 [31]; Ueda in 1992 with four Japanese commentators [18]; Hamill in 1995 [32] and 1998 [14]; Higginson in 1996 [13]; Shirane in 1998 [20], 2002 [33] and 2005 [15]; Corman in 2003 [34]; Barnhill in 2004 [35]; Sasaki in 2005 [36]; Lowenstein in 2007 [37]; Reichhold in 2008 [38]; Kern in 2018 [39]; and Fitzsimons in 2022 [21].

The historical record

1694. 炭俵, the anthology of Bashō's last year, edited by Yaba, Koizumi Kōku 孤屋 and Ikeda Rigyū 利牛, with Kashiwagi Soryū 素龍's preface. Read in the print: the preface closes 元禄七の年夏閏さつき初三乃日 素龍書, and the next leaf opens 誹諧炭俵集上巻 with むめかゝにのつと日乃出る山路かな, 芭蕉 against it, and 處〳〵に雉子乃啼たつ, 野坡 against the second verse [1]. Hagiwara Ragetsu 萩原蘿月's 1929 critical text carries the same preface and leaf, with the editor's notes on the 原本 [4].

1695. Shikō 各務支考, 笈日記, volume 3, under 彦根. Staying with Kyoriku 許六 at Hikone on the eighteenth of the fourth month, Shikō recalls the summer before: 去年の夏阿叟の桃花坊におはす時, last summer, when the old master was at the 桃花坊, people gathered and talked, and he said that if he made a collection he would model it on 桐火桶; for example this verse and なまぐさし小なぎが上の鮠の膓, the one lingering cold and the other lingering heat; he would note them as the gist of one style, and the master said that was very good [2]. The 1926 typeset carries the passage whole [40].

1698. 篇突, edited by Riyū 李由 and Kyoriku. Sets the verse beside 菊の香や庭に切れたる沓の底 and reads the two as yang and yin, as Sekisui quotes it [10]. Ebara's note lists 笈日記, 篇突, 泊船集 and 今日の昔 among the books that also carry the verse [5].

1698, printed 1909. Itō Fūkoku 風国, 泊船集. The verse in the early collected edition of Bashō's verse, as the 1909 typeset carries it [41].

1774. Chōmu 五升庵蝶夢, 芭蕉翁発句集. Under the year heading 元禄七戌年: 蓬莱に聞ばや伊勢の初便, then 一とせに一度つまるゝ若菜哉, then 梅か香にのつと日の出る山路かな, then the spring verses of that year [6].

Edo, undated. 幻住庵俳諧有也無也関, a haikai manual. In its 発句八躰之事, the eight styles of the hokku, the verse is the third under 無心躰, the artless style, after 赤々と日はつれなくも秋の風 and 夏草やつはもの共が夢の跡; the label 悠遠躰, the far-reaching style, which follows it on the leaf, heads the next group (ほとゝぎす消行方や島一つ, 水無月や峯に雲おく嵐山), since in this manual every style name stands at the head of its verses: the next leaf ends the list with two verses after the last name, 風曲躰, and then 右發句八躰の事. Eight verses up, at the head of the whole list and before the first name, 幽玄躰, stands 人も見ぬ春や鏡のうらの梅 [9].

1848. Kaiga 葎甘介我, 風俗文選犬註解. Volumes one to three prefaced 1848 and volume four 1850 [42]. Its commentary quotes Shikō's 笈日記 passage, the verse with it [12].

1896. 炭俵集, a 常磐新誌社 reprint. The verse under the heading 炭俵集, which the preface calls 祖翁家集の内炭俵集; it scans as 香り [11].

1909. 芭蕉句選, a verse list by season appended to a 菅菰抄 typeset; and Numanami, 俳句の作り方. The 句選's 春之部, page 143: 梅か香にのつと日の出る山路哉, two verses above 人も見ぬ春やかゝみのうらの梅, with 山里は萬歲おそしむめの花 between them [7]. Numanami lists it among the plum verses that carry のどか [43].

1911. Ishiko Sekisui 石河積翠, 芭蕉句選年考, in a typeset edited by Ōno Shachiku and Numanami. 元祿七年の炭俵集に有り, with Yaba's 脇 and the two-poet sequence named, and then the 笈日記 passage and the 篇突 reading quoted in turn [10].

1912, 1913. Numanami, two manuals. The gloss on に quoted above [3], and この句の描く所は、山路を通つて行く梅が香のする所へ來た。その時俄に山の一方が開けた所へ出たので、春の霞んだ朝日がヒヨクリと見えた, what the verse paints: walking the mountain path he came to where the plum scent was; just then he came out where one side of the mountain opened, and the hazy spring morning sun popped into view; and, 有名な句である, a famous verse [44].

1926, 1927. Shida Gishū 志田義秀, 俳文学選; 新撰俳諧辞典. Shida prints the verse signed 蕉 [45]. The dictionary, in its 連句作法 under 脇の季, on a page whose running head already reads 脇の月, gives the verse and its 脇 as the example: 梅か香にのツと日の出る山路かな 芭蕉, 脇 所々に雉子の鳴立 野坡 [8].

1932, 1947. Hattori Kōseki 服部畊石, 芭蕉句集新講; Ebara Taizō 潁原退蔵, 新校芭蕉俳句全集. Hattori tags the verse 炭俵, dates it to 1694 with Yaba's 脇, and reads it as 春まだ寒きこの清淨境に立つての詠歎, an exclamation standing in this pure place while spring is still cold [46]. Ebara prints むめがゝにのつと日の出る山路かな under the tag 炭俵 [5].

The attribution. Bashō's from its first printing, and no one has said otherwise. The verse is the hokku of the sequence 梅が香, which Bashō composed with Yaba in Edo in the early spring of 1694; Yaba's 脇 is 處〳〵に雉子の啼たつ, here and there pheasants crying as they fly up, and the 1927 dictionary prints the pair as its textbook example of a 脇 [8]. The sequence was published in 炭俵 that summer: the preface is dated the third of the intercalary fifth month of Genroku 7 and signed by Soryū, and the first volume opens with this verse, 芭蕉 against it and Yaba against the 脇 [1]. Within the year Shikō had discussed it with Bashō in Kyoto [2], and the 1774 Chōmu collection files it under 元禄七戌年 [6]. Bashō died in Osaka that winter, so this is among the last verses he wrote, and Shirane says so [20]. The critical edition Shirane cites is 芭蕉句集, 炭俵, NKBT 45:414.

What is not a source. The season is not in dispute: Shikō's lingering cold is set against the lingering heat of another verse, not against a second reading of this one. The dating rests on the 炭俵's preface, read in the 1694 print, and on Shikō's account, not on any manuscript of the poet's.

The verse in English

1932. 宮森麻太郎 Asatarō Miyamori, An Anthology of Haiku Ancient and Modern, Maruzen, Tokyo, page 163, no. 54. Headed 日の出, The Sunrise: On the mountain road the sun arose / Suddenly in the fragrance of plum-flowers, the sun put first; then the judgment quoted above and a paragraph of scene, the great ball of the red sun rose suddenly, shedding its radiance on the snow-white petals [16].

1947. Kenneth Yasuda, A Pepper-Pod, Tuttle. From plum-scented veil / Of haze suddenly rose the sun / On the mountain trail [23].

1950. R. H. Blyth, Haiku, volume 2, Spring, Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, under PLUM-BLOSSOMS, page 305. Suddenly the sun rose, / To the scent of the plum-blossoms, / Along the mountain path, with the note on notto and the smelled sun [17].

1957. Kenneth Yasuda, The Japanese Haiku, Tuttle, page 185. Under the title On the Mountain Trail: From the plum-scented air / Suddenly the sun comes up / On the mountain road [24].

1958. Harold G. Henderson, An Introduction to Haiku, Doubleday Anchor. Under the title Mountain Plum Blossoms: With the scent of plums / on the mountain road—suddenly, / sunrise comes!, with his word-for-word gloss beneath, dated 1694 [27].

1963. R. H. Blyth, A History of Haiku, volume 1, Hokuseido Press, Tokyo. The same rendering as in 1950 [25].

1964. R. H. Blyth, A History of Haiku, volume 2, Hokuseido Press, Tokyo. The same rendering again [26].

1973. Daniel C. Buchanan, One Hundred Famous Haiku, Japan Publications. On sweet plum blossoms / The sun rises suddenly. / Look, a mountain path!, the path made a discovery [28].

1979. Earl Miner, Japanese Linked Poetry, Princeton University Press, page 120. The fragrance of plum trees and the sun up all of a sudden on the mountain path, as a stanza in the light style from the last year of Bashō's life [29].

1981. Earl Miner and Hiroko Odagiri, The Monkey's Straw Raincoat, Princeton University Press, page 330. With plum flowers fragrant the sun pops up all of a sudden on the mountain road, among the late hokku that do not exemplify sabi and seem to lighten the hokku [19].

1981. Hiroaki Sato and Burton Watson, From the Country of Eight Islands, Anchor, pages 383–384. The whole sequence, At a Fragrance of Plums, headed Composed in the spring of 1694 by Matsuo Bashō and Shida Yaba: At a fragrance of plums, a blob, the sun appears on a mountain path, then Yaba's here and there a pheasant call rises [30].

1988. Sōiku Shigematsu, A Zen Harvest, North Point Press. Plum flower's fragrance: / Pop, out comes the sun— / The mountain path [31].

1992. Makoto Ueda, Bashō and His Interpreters, Stanford University Press, page 376. in the scent of plums / suddenly the sun peeps out— / the mountain path, with a word-for-word gloss and four commentators: Donto on the snow still lying in the shade, Mizuho on the two senses merged, Rohan on blossoms that smell stronger in the morning sun, and Shida on karumi [18].

1995, 1998. Sam Hamill, The Sound of Water and The Essential Bashō, Shambhala. With plum blossom scent, this sudden sun emerges along a mountain trail [32], and, with the romaji mume, this morning sun emerges [14].

1996. William J. Higginson, The Haiku Seasons, Kodansha International, page 21. in the scent of plum / suddenly the sun comes out / mountain path, with the romaji mume, as the verse of a February morning [13].

1998. Haruo Shirane, Traces of Dreams, Stanford University Press, pages 89 and 204. in the scent of the plum blossoms / suddenly, the sun comes up / a mountain path, with 野坡's 脇 and the sequence's headnote, Plum Blossom Scent (Ume ga ka, 1694), and note 46 on 余寒 and the roundish, warm sound of notto [20].

2002. Haruo Shirane, Early Modern Japanese Literature, Columbia University Press, pages 201–202. In the plum blossom scent / the sun pops up / a mountain path, with the same sequence headnote and note [33].

2003. Cid Corman, One Man's Moon, Gnomon Press, page 13. With odor of plum bursts the sunrise mountain path [34].

2004. David Landis Barnhill, Bashō's Haiku, State University of New York Press, no. 661, page 143. in the plum's fragrance, / suddenly the sun— / mountain path, dated 1694 in the notes [35].

2005. Haruo Shirane, Classical Japanese: A Grammar, Columbia University Press, page 460; and Sasaki Sanmi, Chadō: The Way of Tea, Tuttle. Shirane sets the verse as a grammar exercise from the 炭俵 in NKBT, glossing mume, ni and notto [15]. Sasaki gives it under a tea sweet named Ume ga ka: On a mountain path enveloped in the fragrance of plum blossoms the sun suddenly showed itself [36].

2007. Tom Lowenstein, Classic Haiku, Watkins. Plum blossom scent as the sun comes up on a path through the mountains [37].

2008. Jane Reichhold, Bashō: The Complete Haiku, Kodansha USA, no. 597. plum blossom scent / suddenly sun of rise / mountain road, her word-order literal, with the romaji [38].

2018. Adam L. Kern, The Penguin Book of Haiku, Penguin Classics, page 43. scent of plum / in a flash of rising sun! / the mountain path, and in the commentary a frosty, perhaps still snowy, but undoubtedly lonely mountain road where the speaker encounters the first whiff of spring [39].

2022. Andrew Fitzsimons, Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō, University of California Press, no. 841, page 312. A waft of ume / and out of the blue the sun / on the mountain path, dated Spring 1694, with the note on karumi and 余寒 quoted above [21].

The order. A rendering of this line has one thing to keep, Bashō's order of scent, then sun, then path, and of the renderings above all but Miyamori's, Blyth's, Henderson's and Sasaki's keep it.

A reading

I read the verse as Shikō did in 1694 and as Numanami did in 1912: the cold is the lingering cold of early spring, the scent is where the poet is, the sun comes up there, and the path is the last thing named because it is what he is standing on. Shikō's is a reading the poet heard and approved, which is as much standing as a reading of a hokku can have; I take it as settling the season and nothing more.

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Tim Jackowski (Systems Architect, Takase Studios, LLC) · 典 Ten (Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1, Takase Studios, LLC)

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Cite as: Tim Jackowski and Ten, "Philology of 梅が香にのつと日の出る山路かな (mume ga ka ni notto hi no deru yamaji kana)," Takase Studios, 2026, https://takase.com/library/philology/mume-ga-ka-ni-notto-hi-no-deru-yamaji-kana.