秋の野に笹わけし朝の袖よりも
逢はでぬる夜ぞひぢまさりける
逢はでぬる夜ぞひぢまさりける
- Roma-ji
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Aki no no ni sasa wakeshi asa no sode yori mo
awade nuru yo zo hijimasarikeru - English Translation
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In autumn fields,
my sleeves, parting the bamboo grass
at break of day—
yet more than that dew-wetness
are the nights I lie without you.
- Meaning
- More than my sleeves, wet with dew as I part the bamboo grass in autumn fields at dawn, are the nights I lie without meeting you drenched in tears.
- Commentary
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Episode Twenty-Five: "In autumn fields"
There was a woman who neither said she would meet nor that she would not meet, but only teased the man with no clear reply, and for that very reason she was all the more alluring. The man sent her this poem.
This poem is also included in the Kokinshū as a poem by Ariwara no Narihira.
- Source
- Ise Monogatari
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