いつも聞く麓の里と思へども
昨日に変はる山おろしの風
昨日に変はる山おろしの風
- Roma-ji
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Itsumo kiku fumoto no sato to omoedomo kinō ni kawaru yamaoroshi no kaze
- English Translation
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I have always heard
this wind at the foot of hills
or so I had thought
and yet from yesterday it
is changed, this wind off the slopes
- Meaning
- I thought it the same wind I always hear in the village at the foot of the hills; and yet it has changed since yesterday, this wind coming down off the slopes.
- Commentary
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Book Four Autumn Poems I 288
Headnote: for a screen at the entry of an imperial consort in 1190.
The fourth poem on the autumn wind. As in the previous poem, autumn is known by a difference from yesterday. The headnote assigns it to a screen made for that occasion; the two hundred and eightieth poem of Book Three belongs to the same screen.
The poet, known by his office, is Fujiwara no Sanesada. He rose to Minister of the Left and was a nephew of Fujiwara no Shunzei and a cousin of Teika. In Book One he is the poet of the thirty-fifth poem, in Book Two of the hundred and forty-first, and in Book Three of the two hundred and nineteenth.
The time is the beginning of autumn; the place is a village at the foot of hills.
The occasion was the screen.
The first two lines mean: the sound I always hear in the village below the hills. Familiarity is taken as given.
The concessive particle in the third line turns the sentence: familiar though it should be.
The fourth line uses the idea of the previous poem, a change since yesterday. The two stand together, and both judge the season by comparison with the day before.
The poem closes on a noun naming the wind that comes down off a mountain. Though written for a painted screen, it takes as its subject the one thing a painting cannot show, a difference in the sound of wind. The previous poem used the wind at dawn and this one the wind off the hills, so that the same subject is treated with the wind changed.
- Author
- Fujiwara no Sanesada
- Source
- Shin Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- Already, and see how the reed leaves are all turned and lean the one way there, there it is, in the wind I hear that autumn has come
- In the single night I slept, it seems the autumn has come after all for the wind at daybreak here is not what it was before
- Only yesterday I was meaning to go there and to Ikuta the wood in Tsu no Kuni the autumn has come before
- The wind that blows here has no colour to be seen and yet on the pines high on Takasago's peak the autumn has come at last