夏と秋と行きかふそらのかよひぢは
かたへはすずしき風やふくらむ
かたへはすずしき風やふくらむ
- Roma-ji
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Natsu to aki to yukikau sora no kayoiji wa
katae wa suzushiki kaze ya fukuramu - English Translation
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Where summer and autumn
pass each other in the sky,
along that pathway—
does from one side, perhaps, blow
a wind already cool and clear?
- Meaning
- Along the path in the sky where summer and autumn pass each other, does a cool wind perhaps blow from one side?
- Commentary
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Book III, Summer Poems
Composed on the last day of the sixth month.
As summer ends and the air of autumn begins to be felt, the poet gives form to an imagined scene, wondering whether a cool wind already blows along the unseen path where the two seasons cross.
- Author
- Oshikochi no Mitsune
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- In a summer night, still thinking it early eve, dawn has already come— in what part of the clouds now does the moon find its lodging?
- Since the day it bloomed, I have thought not even dust should settle on it— this pink, like one I sleep with, dear as my beloved one.
- Though with my own eyes I cannot clearly discern that autumn has come, it is in the sound of wind that I am made aware of it.
- The river wind now blows with a coolness—perhaps with the rising waves, along with their surging, too, autumn itself comes to stand?