ゆふづく夜をぐらの山に鳴く鹿の
こゑのうちにや秋はくるらむ
こゑのうちにや秋はくるらむ
- Roma-ji
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Yūzukuyo Ogura no yama ni naku shika no
koe no uchi ni ya aki wa kururamu - English Translation
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in the evening moonlight
on Mount Ogura a deer cries—
within its calling voice
has autumn come to its end
and faded away there
- Meaning
- In the evening moonlight, as a deer cries on Mount Ogura, perhaps within that voice autumn is coming to its end.
- Commentary
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Book Five Autumn Poems (Part Two)
This poem was composed at Ōi on the last day of the ninth month.
“Evening moonlight” refers to the faint moon seen in the western sky at dusk. The poet overlays the ending of the day with the ending of autumn, hearing in the cry of the deer the passing of the season.
Ōi is near present-day Arashiyama in Kyoto, and Mount Ogura lies on the left bank of the Ōi River nearby.
- Author
- Ki no Tsurayuki
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
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