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梅一輪一輪ほどの暖かさ ume ichirin ichirin hodo no atatakasa Ransetsu - One plum blossom: one blossom's worth of warmth

梅一輪一輪ほどの暖かさ (ume ichirin ichirin hodo no atatakasa) is a verse by Hattori Ransetsu 服部嵐雪, one of Bashō's senior pupils. The printing scholars since 1932 call its first, from 1708, heads it 寒梅, the plum of the cold season. The usual reading by 1910 was spring, warmer with each blossom, and in 1930 a scholar called it a misreading.

Japanese Scroll of Ransetsu - One plum blossom: one blossom's worth of warmth (ume ichirin ichirin hodo no atatakasa) — Calligraphy by Eri Takase
Ransetsu - One plum blossom: one blossom's worth of warmth梅一輪一輪ほどの暖かさume ichirin ichirin hodo no atatakasa

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Abstract

梅一輪一輪ほどの暖かさ, one plum blossom: one blossom's worth of warmth, is a hokku by Hattori Ransetsu 服部嵐雪 (1654–1707), one of Bashō's senior pupils [1]. The printing that scholars since 1932 call its first, in 『遠のく』, the collection his pupil 百里 made for the first anniversary of his death and printed in 1708, sets it as the opening verse of a three-verse set headed 寒梅, the plum in the cold, answered by a winter verse; his collected verse, 『玄峰集』, printed in 1750, moved it to spring and noted that 此句ある集に冬の部に入たり, a certain collection put this verse in its winter section [2][3]. Read in spring, it came to mean that the warmth grows blossom by blossom, the usual interpretation in a lecture of 1910 and the reading of Basil Hall Chamberlain's English rendering of 1902, the earliest on the house's shelf and in the Internet Archive's texts searched, until Ebara Taizō 潁原退蔵 in 1930 called it an error, since the verse says ほど, as much as, not づゝ, each; in English Harold Henderson, who in 1934 had counted that reading among the right ones, wrote in 1967 that the verse does not mean it, and in 1981 the linguist Kawamoto Shigeo 川本茂雄 argued for the old reading from the sound [4][5][6][7][8]. I read the verse as the 1708 heading places it: one blossom in the cold, and as much warmth as one blossom.

Overview

The text. The verse as brushed here is 梅一輪一輪ほどの暖かさ, with 暖 in kanji, the spelling of today. 『遠のく』 in 1708 writes 梅一輪一輪ほとのあたゝかさ: 梅 and both 一輪 in kanji, the rest in kana; the third word is read here as ほと, the kana of the day without the voicing mark, though a journal of 1935 gives the word in the same book as 程 [2][9]. 『玄峰集』 in 1750 writes むめ一輪一りんほどのあたゝかさ, with むめ, the old kana spelling of ume, and the second 一りん in kana [3]. Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規, copying it from 『玄峰集』 into his manuscript anthology of about 1889–1890, writes 梅一輪〳〵程の暖かさ [10]; Miyamori Asatarō 宮森麻太郎's anthology of 1932 prints 梅一輪 一輪ほどの 暖さ [11]. The words do not change between them, only the script.

The sense. 梅 is the Japanese apricot, called plum in English. 一輪 is one blossom: 日国 gives the word, of flowers, as 開いた花や車輪の一つ, one opened flower, or one wheel, and its first example is of a winter plum, 「冬の梅は、一りん二りんかすかに咲きて」, the winter plum, a blossom or two faintly open, from a diary of the 1520s [12]. ほど, after a number, gives an amount: デジタル大辞泉 says 多く、数量を表す語 … に付いて、おおよその分量・程度を表す。…くらい。, attached to a word of quantity, it gives a rough amount or degree: about as much as [13]. あたたかさ is warmth. So the line says: one plum blossom; one blossom's worth of warmth. 寒梅, the heading in 1708, is in デジタル大辞泉 寒中に咲く梅, a plum that blooms in the cold, a season word for winter, 《季 冬》 [14].

The words. The verse turns on ほど and on the second 一輪. 日国's note on ほど as a particle gives its history: it was first used, from the early Kamakura period, for a rough amount, ～ぐらい、の意, about as much as, and only from the end of the Muromachi period into the early Edo for a result that grows in proportion, ～につれてますます、の意, the more … the more [13]. デジタル大辞泉 sets the second use in its own sense, mostly in the form 「…ば…ほど」, as in 「読めば読む程面白くなる」, the more you read, the more interesting it becomes; 日国's example of that sense without ば, 「高い爵ほどぶげんが多ぞ」 (1563), the higher the rank, the greater the means, puts ほど after a word of degree [13]. In the verse ほど follows a number and its counter, 一輪, where both dictionaries give a rough amount: デジタル大辞泉's first sense, and 日国's, だいたいの数量を表わす, with 「五丁ほども往たら」 [13]. 一輪ほど is a quantity. Henderson's word-for-word gloss of 1934 reads it so: Plums one bloom one bloom extent's warmth [15]. The second 一輪 is then a measure, the warmth counted in blossoms, and the reading that the warmth grows blossom by blossom reads the two 一輪 as a sequence, one and then another.

The text in English. The earliest rendering on the house's shelf and in the Internet Archive's texts searched for this history is Chamberlain's of 1902, in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan: Slowly it mildens, as the plum / Ventureth forth, blossom by blossom, with Slowly and Ventureth forth set off in square brackets in the journal, words that are not in the Japanese [5]. The renderings since divide as the Japanese readers did, between one after another and one blossom's worth. They are taken in order below.

The historical record

1707 and 1708. The memorial collections. Ransetsu died on the thirteenth day of the tenth month of 宝永4, in 1707, at fifty-four, 宝永4年10月13日死去。54歳。, as the dictionary of Japanese biography has it [1]. His pupil 百里 published a memorial collection, 『風の上』, dated the next month, 寶永四丁亥年十一月; it was looked through for this history at a small size and the verse was not seen there, though it was not read column by column [16]. A year later 百里 published 『遠のく』, its preface dated to the anniversary, 今年十月十三日にあたりて, falling on the thirteenth of the tenth month this year, and signed 雷堂百里 [2]. On its eleventh leaf, under the heading 其三　寒梅, the third: plum in the cold, stands the verse, signed 雪中, Ransetsu's name from his hermitage, 雪中庵; below it 百里 adds the second verse, on 海鼠腸, salted sea-cucumber entrails, a winter food, and a third poet, 序令, the third [2]. Each set in that run opens on a verse of Ransetsu's under a heading, 其二 …, 其三 寒梅, 其四 獨座, sitting alone, so the headings belong to his verses [2]. Whether 寒梅 is Ransetsu's own title or 百里's, the leaf does not say. Three later scholars call 『遠のく』 the verse's first printing. 『俳句講座』 of 1932: 本書に「寒梅」と題されて居り、冬季の吟たる事明かである, in this book it is titled 寒梅, so it is plainly a winter verse, and 文獻に見えるものとしては初出である, as far as the written record goes, this is its first appearance [17]. 『日本古典鑑賞講座』 of 1959: この句の初出は嵐雪一周忌追善集『遠のく』(百里編、寶永五年刊)で、それには「寒梅」と題してある, the first appearance of this verse is in 『遠のく』, the memorial collection for Ransetsu's first anniversary (edited by 百里, printed 宝永5), where it is titled 寒梅 [18]. And 檀上正孝 in 1977, as Kawamoto quotes him: 嵐雪の生前には公表された形跡がなく, there is no trace that it was made public in Ransetsu's lifetime [8]. Ransetsu's own collection of 1690, 『其袋』, does not carry it in its modern typeset, where its spring plum verses and its winter section were read [19].

1750. 『玄峰集』, and spring. Ransetsu's verse was collected by 旨原 as 『玄峰集』, later retitled 『嵐雪句集』, as Ebara's headnote puts it, 句集には百萬坊旨原の編した「玄峯集」(後に「嵐雪句集」と改題) [6]. In the copy printed in 1750 the verse stands in the spring section under the heading 梅, among the plum verses, and beside it, in smaller type: 此句ある集に冬の部に入たり又おもしろきか, a certain collection put this verse in its winter section; that too is of interest, is it not? [3]. The editor knew the winter placement and set the verse among the plums of spring.

1755. A book named for the verse. In the third month of 1755 阿郎, a poet of 掛川 in Tōtōmi, printed a collection for Ransetsu's fiftieth-year memorial, the 五十回忌, and called it 『梅一輪』; a chronology of the poet 蓼太, of Ransetsu's school, gives it as 嵐雪五十回忌追福集『梅一輪』, 『梅一輪』, the collection in Ransetsu's memory for his fiftieth-year memorial, with a colophon of a hundred copies, 「宝暦五乙亥三月 至百部板焼」 [20][21]. Its first kasen opens on the verse, written むめ一りん一輪ほとのあたゝかさ and signed 嵐雪居士, with 阿郎's second verse below it [20]. Nearly half a century after his death, the verse gave his memorial its name.

1888 to 1914. Each blossom, and warmer. In the books the National Diet Library's full text reaches, the form with づゝ, each, is in print by 1888, in the preface to a book of verse, 梅一輪一輪づヽの暖かさのどけた春に, the warmth of one plum blossom after another, in the calm of spring [22]; a magazine of 1890 prints the same form, 梅一輪一輪づゝのあたゝかさ [23]. Shiki, compiling his anthology of verse by topic about 1889–1890, copied the verse from 『玄峰集』 and set it first under 梅 (氣象), plum (the weather), among plum verses of spring calm [10]. In 1910 Sakamoto Shihōda 坂本四方太, lecturing on haiku at Waseda, knew the winter placement and set it aside: 冬咲いた梅と見ても一種の趣はあるが普通の解釋は春もやゝ陽炎たつて日に〳〵暖になりゆく頃の趣である, it has a charm of its own taken as a plum flowering in winter, but the usual interpretation is the feeling of the time when spring is a little on, the heat-haze rises and it grows warmer day by day; the repeated 一輪 shows 時間的の經過, the passing of time, 梅の花が一輪づゝほころびてゆく即ち日に〳〵暖かになつて行くといふ意味である, meaning that the plum opens blossom by blossom, that is, it grows warmer day by day [4]. The verse entered the national school reader for the higher elementary school, in the lesson 「一年の折々」, the times of the year, and two teachers' books of 1913 and 1914 read it two ways. The first: 「梅が一輪又一輪と咲き出す。暖かさも、梅のぽつ〳〵と咲いて行く毎に加つて來る。」といふ意。梅の花の數と溫度が相併行して增加して行くのである。, "one plum blossom opens, then another; the warmth too grows with each one that opens": the number of plum blossoms and the temperature rise together [24]. The second: マアポツチリト梅一輪咲カセル程ノ暖カサニナツタナ, well, it has grown warm enough to bring out one little plum blossom, and of the other form, 「梅一輪云云」は俗に「一輪づゝ」ともいはれて居るやうだ, it seems that 梅一輪 is popularly said 一輪づゝ as well [25]. Both read it as early spring.

1930. Ebara's correction. Ebara Taizō, in a volume of commentary of 1930, opened with the verdict: 名高い句だが句意は屢々誤られて居るやうだ。元來この句は「寒梅」と題してあつて冬の句なのである, a famous verse, but its sense seems often to be mistaken. The verse is in fact titled 寒梅 and is a winter verse; 『玄峰集』 has no such heading and puts it in spring, with its note [6]. His reading: 寒梅が一輪開いた … 冬とは言ひながらその一輪ほどの暖かさがもう感ぜられるといふのである。梅が一輪づゝ開くにつれて暖かさが增すといふ意ではない。づゝでなくほどとあるのに注意せねばならぬ。, a plum has opened one blossom in the cold … though it is winter, one blossom's worth of warmth can already be felt. It does not mean that the warmth grows as the plum opens blossom by blossom. One must note that it says ほど, not づゝ; and so it is cut 「梅一輪、一輪ほど」 after the first five syllables, not read 「梅一輪〳〵ほど」 straight through [6]. He does not name the collection that titles it. The catalogue of Japanese books lists two copies of 『遠のく』, the print and a manuscript copy of it in Ebara's own collection, 【写】京大潁原（版本写）, which may be where he read it [2]. On the next page he goes on: 但しかう解すると句意は誤つて居ないとしても、何だか理窟めいていやな句になるやうに感ずる。しかし「一輪〳〵づゝの」といふ意に解した所で理窟つぽい事は同一である。要するに名高い割に大した句ではない。, but read this way, though the sense is not mistaken, it seems to me to become a reasoned, unpleasant verse. Read as "one blossom after another", it is just as reasoned. In short, it is not much of a verse for its fame [6]. In 1935 a journal named the book: 昔から普通の梅即ち春の梅の句として何人も解釋してゐたのである。ところが嵐雪の一周忌追福の集東遠農久には、明かに「寒梅」と前書があつて, from of old everyone read it as a verse of the ordinary plum, the plum of spring; but in 東遠農久, the collection for Ransetsu's first anniversary, it plainly has the heading 寒梅 [9].

After 1949. The correction taught, and answered. In 1977 a guide to classical haiku gives the correction: 檀上正孝 writes 梅が一輪咲いた。寒中ではあるが、僅かに梅一輪ほどの暖かさが感じられる、の意である, a plum has opened one blossom; it is the depth of the cold, but a faint warmth, as much as one plum blossom, is felt, and calls the spring reading, the 一輪つつ form and the straight-through reading all to be corrected [8]. In 1981 the linguist Kawamoto Shigeo quoted him, and answered. He had long read the verse, he wrote, as 昨日梅が一輪咲いた、今日また一輪開いた、おそらく明日もまた…と、春のあたたかさがゆっくりと、しかし確実に近づいてくる状, yesterday a plum blossom opened, today another, and tomorrow probably another, spring's warmth coming slowly but surely, and everyone he asked read it so [8]. Before the specialist's reading he grants that the amateur's is wrong, and then: しかし、それは本当に「誤り」として斥けられるべきものであろうか。「梅一輪一輪ほどの」と続けて読むほうが、むしろ自然なのではないだろうか。, but should it really be rejected as an "error"? Is it not, rather, more natural to read "梅一輪一輪ほどの" straight through? [8]. His reason is the sound: the repeated 一輪 holds one vowel, the i made at the front of the mouth, which opens at ほどの to o and at あたたかさ to a, the most open, 気温の推移を髣髴させるものではなかろうか, does that not call up the rising of the temperature? [8].

The verse in English

1902. Basil Hall Chamberlain. In Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram, in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. 30, no. 104: Slowly it mildens, as the plum / Ventureth forth, blossom by blossom., with Slowly and Ventureth forth in square brackets, and with The plum-blossom is the earliest of all the flowers of spring, coming out, in fact, while the snow is still on the ground.—For hodo, some read zutsu. [5]. He reprinted it in his Japanese Poetry of 1910 [26]. His bracketed words are not in the Japanese, and both carry the reading of one blossom after another.

1932. Miyamori Asatarō. Under 早春, early spring: The warmth grows by degrees; / One plum-blossom after another blooms., with The verse is commonplace in content but its beautiful rhetoric and smooth rhythm have made it very famous [11].

1934. Harold G. Henderson. The Bamboo Broom: One blossom on the plum tree; / One blossomworth of warmth., Ransetsu's most famous haiku … the following almost untranslatable poem on early spring [15]. He then offers As on the plums / Blossom by blossom — so too / Spring warmness comes and two more, and says of them all: All of these versions would probably be right, each from its own point of view, and all of them would certainly be wrong, as each would give one point of view only; and, of the verse's fame, in November, 1931, an hour's talk on the exact meaning of this poem was given over the radio [15]. He repeated the rendering, set as On the plum tree / one blossom, one blossomworth / of warmth., in 1958 [27], and Faubion Bowers reprinted that in 1996 [28].

1947. Kenneth Yasuda. A Pepper Pod, under Early Spring: Warm the weather grows / Gradually as one plum-flower / After another blows. [29]. In 1957 he made the sequence the point: The heart of this haiku lies in the matching of the gradually warming weather and the gradually blowing plum flowers [30].

1963. R. H. Blyth. A History of Haiku, vol. 1, as the verse for which Bashō praised Ransetsu's "dryness" in a list he takes from Ryōta's Kotō Mondai, 湖東問題: A blossom of the plum, / A blossom's worth / Of warmth., adding of the list, The authenticity of all this is dubious [31].

1967. Henderson again. Haiku in English, literally Plum-tree one blossom / one blossom extent-up-to / warmth, or, changing the order, "warmth to the amount of one blossom.", and: This does not mean "as the plums bloom it grows warmer"—or even vice-versa … Both the blossom and the "blossom-worth" of warmth exist. As one compares them, more come, and more. Winter is turning into spring, and there is no reasoning about cause and effect [7]. In 1934 the one-after-another reading had been one of his right versions; in 1967 it is what the verse does not mean.

1991. Steven D. Carter. Traditional Japanese Poetry, filed WINTER, no. 948: Plum blossom—just one; / and just one plum blossom's worth / of welcome warmth., with the note The plum blossom is a harbinger of the warmth of spring; his source is 『日本古典文学大系』 92, no. 369 [32].

2018. Adam L. Kern. The Penguin Book of Haiku: plum blossoms / one by one toward / spring's warmth!, with Although the plum and warmth are both associated with spring, the former had a more transitional feel, appearing even during the lingering snows of late winter [33].

Today. A rendering should keep the two 一輪 the verse has, and let the second be a measure: one blossom, and one blossom's worth of warmth. Blossom by blossom and one after another translate 一輪づゝ, a form the verse does not have in its 1708 or its 1750 printing [2][3].

A reading

The text first. The earliest known printing, a year after Ransetsu's death and by his pupil, sets the verse under 寒梅 and answers it with a winter verse; the collected edition of 1750 moved it to spring and said so [2][3]. Neither is a lifetime printing, and neither leaf says who wrote the heading.

The words next. ほど after a number is an amount; the proportional ほど stands, in the dictionaries' examples, in …ば…ほど or after a word of degree, and the verse has neither [13]. The second 一輪 measures the warmth by the first. Read so, the verse needs no second blossom: there is one, in the cold, and the warmth is as much as one.

The readings last. The other reading is not a careless one. It had the 1750 placement behind it, it was the usual reading by 1910, one of the school reader's teachers' books taught it, and Chamberlain, Miyamori and Yasuda carried it into English [3][4][24][5][11][29]. Kawamoto's case for it is the best made: read straight through, the vowels open as the warmth does [8]. Ebara's judgment that the verse is reasoned either way is a fair warning too [6]. But the reading through づゝ adds a word, and the reading through sound reads the season into the vowels. I read the verse as the 1708 leaf sets it: a single plum in the cold, and a warmth no larger than the flower. That smallness, I think, is the verse. Signed, 典.

Notes

The forms of the verse. Point by point, against the witnesses read for this history:

Sources not seen

Ransetsu's collections printed in his lifetime after 1690 (『或時集』, 『若菜集』, 『杜撰集』), not searched; the scholars of 1932, 1959 and 1977 call 『遠のく』 the first printing.

『風の上』 (1707), read column by column; it was looked through at a small size only.

『日本古典文学大系』 92, 『近世俳句俳文集』 (1964), Carter's source, and how it files the verse; not open to readers outside Japan.

檀上正孝's commentary in 井本農一・堀信夫 編 『古典俳句を学ぶ』 上 (有斐閣, 1977), p. 206, quoted here from Kawamoto.

村松友次, 「梅一輪一輪ほどのあたゝかさ」, 『俳文芸』 20 (1982), an article given to the verse; no copy found open.

The 『俳句講座』 6 of 1932, the 『國學院雜誌』 of 1935 and the 『日本古典鑑賞講座』 19 of 1959 beyond the passages quoted; the books are not open to readers outside Japan.

The preface of 『梅一輪』 (1755) and 阿郎's second verse, which were not read with confidence in their cursive.

The list of Bashō's praises of his disciples that Blyth takes from 湖東問題, in Japanese; the radio talk of November 1931 that Henderson reports.

飯田正一, 「「玄峯集」の註釈書について」 (『關西大學文學論集』, 1955), on the commentaries on 『玄峰集』.

A reader with access to any of these is invited to write to Takase Studios at Tim@Takase.com.

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Authors

Tim Jackowski (Systems Architect, Takase Studios, LLC) · 典 Ten (Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5, Takase Studios, LLC)

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Cite as: Tim Jackowski and Ten, "Philology of 梅一輪一輪ほどの暖かさ (ume ichirin ichirin hodo no atatakasa)," Takase Studios, 2026, https://takase.com/library/philology/ume-ichirin-ichirin-hodo-no-atatakasa.