おとは山けさこえくれば郭公
こずゑはるかに今ぞなくなる
こずゑはるかに今ぞなくなる
- Roma-ji
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Otowayama kesa koekureba hototogisu
kozue haruka ni ima zo naku naru - English Translation
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Crossing Mount Otowa
this very morning,
the cuckoo now cries,
from treetops far away,
its voice drifting to me.
- Meaning
- Crossing Mount Otowa this very morning, I hear the cuckoo now crying from far-off treetops.
- Commentary
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Book III, Summer Poems
Composed upon crossing Mount Otowa and hearing the cuckoo’s call.
The poem expresses the poet’s emotion as he listens to the voice of the cuckoo calling from distant treetops along the mountain path.
Mount Otowa lies just south of the Ōsaka Barrier, on the border between Yamashiro Province and Ōmi Province.
- Author
- Ki no Tomonori
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
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