いつのまにさ月きぬらむあしびきの
山郭公今ぞなくなる
山郭公今ぞなくなる
- Roma-ji
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Itsu no ma ni satsuki kinuramu ashibiki no
yamahototogisu ima zo naku naru - English Translation
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Before I knew it,
has the Fifth Month come?
from the mountain depths,
the cuckoo at last now
has begun to cry aloud.
- Meaning
- Before I knew it, has the Fifth Month come? The cuckoo in the mountains has now begun to cry.
- Commentary
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Book III, Summer Poems
The poem expresses the emotion felt upon hearing at last the long-awaited cry of the cuckoo.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- When the Fifth Month comes, your song will lose its rarity, O cuckoo; before that time arrives, let me hear your fresh young voice.
- Awaiting the Fifth Month, when I catch the scent of orange blossoms, it is the fragrance of one long past that comes to me.
- This very morning, having just begun to cry, still on its journey, o cuckoo, pray take rest in my blooming orange tree.
- Crossing Mount Otowa this very morning, the cuckoo now cries, from treetops far away, its voice drifting to me.