秋の野の露分け来たる狩衣
葎茂れる宿にかこつな
葎茂れる宿にかこつな
- Roma-ji
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Aki no no no tsuyu wake kitaru karigoromo
mugura shigereru yado ni kakotsu na - English Translation
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Do not lay the blame
on a house overgrown with
creeper, for a hunting
robe that has come here parting
the dew of the autumn fields
- Meaning
- Do not blame this creeper-grown house for a hunting robe that has come parting the dew of the autumn fields.
- Commentary
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Part Three: Tenarai
The nun's reply. It was not this house that soaked him, she says lightly, turning him aside. That day the Captain stayed on into the night, and the nun kept him there with further poems. The old mother nun played the koto and the Captain the flute, and it became a night of music such as the ruined mountain village had not known.
"A hunting robe that has come parting the dew" is a robe wet from the fields, taking up his "lost my way in the dew." A house overgrown with creeper is a place gone to waste, said of their own dwelling in self-deprecation. Kakotsu is to lay one's own trouble at another's door. Telling him not to blame the house for the grief of his suit, she puts the suit aside.
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
- Genji Monogatari
- Other
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- Moved and planted here, the maiden flower is not troubled in her heart— not in this hut of grass, where the bitter world is turned from
- I came here seeking the voice of the pine cricket, and once again I have lost my way among the dew of the bush-clover fields
- Is it that you are not one to look with feeling at the late-night moon, that you will not stay the night in a house so near the ridge
- I will watch the moon until it enters the ridge, to see whether there is any sign of it in the boards of the sleeping room