神なびの三室の山を秋ゆけば
錦たちきる心地こそすれ
錦たちきる心地こそすれ
- Roma-ji
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Kannabi no Mimuro no yama o aki yukeba
nishiki tachikiru kokochi koso sure - English Translation
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when I pass in autumn
through Mimuro, sacred mount,
where the gods abide—
it feels as though I have cut
and wear a robe of brocade
- Meaning
- When I pass in autumn through Mount Mimuro, where the gods abide, it feels as though I have cut and wear a robe of brocade.
- Commentary
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Book Five Autumn Poems (Part Two)
Passing through a mountain covered in autumn leaves, so many leaves fall and surround the body that it feels as though one is clothed in brocade (a luxurious woven fabric), and the poem praises that beauty.
- Author
- Mibu no Tadamine
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- even in ages of gods never once has it been heard— the Tatsuta River binding its flowing waters in deep-dyed scarlet
- even the path I came I no longer can discern— on Mount Kurabu, dark, as the leaves of many trees fall in a blinding scatter
- with no one to behold they scatter and fall away— deep in the mountains; these autumn leaves are but brocade worn in the night
- since there is a god who makes offerings to Tatsuta the goddess fair— the autumn leaves must fall like sacred streamers scattered