今さらに山へかへるな郭公
こゑのかぎりはわがやどになけ
こゑのかぎりはわがやどになけ
- Roma-ji
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Imasara ni yama e kaeru na hototogisu
koe no kagiri wa waga yado ni nake - English Translation
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Do not now return
to the mountains, cuckoo bird—
you have come at last;
as long as your voice endures,
cry here at my dwelling.
- Meaning
- Now that you have come, do not return to the mountains, O cuckoo; as long as your voice lasts, cry here at my home.
- Commentary
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Book III, Summer Poems
The long-awaited cuckoo has come down from the mountains and is calling. Since it will return once the season passes, the poet expresses a wish for it to remain and continue singing at his home.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- Your voice I hear, but never see your tears, o cuckoo crying— take, then, my sleeves instead, soaked through with falling tears.
- From mountain depths, the cuckoos come and cry, one after another— as though asking aloud, who among them surpasses all.
- Ah, wait a while— o cuckoo returning to the mountain home; bear a message for me: I am weary of this world.
- In early summer rain, as I dwell in troubled thought, the cuckoo at night, cries deep into the darkness— whither has it flown away?