山河に風のかけたるしがらみは
流れもあへぬ紅葉なりけり
流れもあへぬ紅葉なりけり
- Roma-ji
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Yamagawa ni kaze no kaketaru shigarami wa
nagare mo aenu momiji narikeri - English Translation
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on mountain streams
the wind has cast a barrier—
a woven fence of leaves;
they cannot drift away,
these autumn leaves caught fast
- Meaning
- On the mountain river, the barrier the wind has cast is none other than autumn leaves that cannot drift away.
- Commentary
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Book Five Autumn Poems (Part Two)
Composed on the road crossing the mountains of Shiga.
Also included in the Hyakunin Isshu.
It depicts the scene of fallen leaves caught on rocks and the like in the river, unable to flow on. The wind is personified, as though it had set up a barrier that holds the leaves back from drifting away.
- Author
- Harumichi no Toshi
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
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