月影の初秋風とふけゆけば
心づくしに物をこそ思へ
心づくしに物をこそ思へ
- Roma-ji
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Tsukikage no hatsuakikaze to fukeyukeba kokorozukushi ni mono o koso omoe
- English Translation
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The light of the moon
and the first wind of autumn
as the night grows late
I brood with all my heart, and
spend the whole of it in that
- Meaning
- As the night deepens with the moonlight and the first autumn wind, I do nothing but brood, and spend my whole heart on it.
- Commentary
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Book Four Autumn Poems I 381
Headnote: topic unknown.
The third poem on the moon. As the night deepens under moonlight and autumn wind, the brooding deepens with it. The headnote gives no topic and nothing is known of the circumstances.
Retired Emperor En'yu (959-991) was the fifth son of Emperor Murakami and was known by that name after his abdication. Princess Kishi, poet of the three hundred and twenty-fifth piece, was a consort of Murakami and belonged to that reign.
The time is an autumn night; no place is given.
The occasion of composition is not recorded.
The word in the first line means light.
The second line means together with the first wind of autumn; the particle marks the pairing, so that something seen and something felt stand side by side.
The third line means as the night wears on, and gives the passage of time.
The phrase in the fourth line means spending one's heart, taking pains, brooding, used in Inpumon-in no Taifu's hundred and forty-third poem in Book Two and in Tsunenobu's three hundred and forty-second in this book.
An emphatic particle governs the concessive form at the close. The daughter of Shigeyuki's three hundred and fifty-fourth poem ends the same way, and the two share the words. Moon and wind together bring the brooding to its height, and the tie between autumn and brooding that has run through this book is kept up in the run on the moon.
- Author
- Retired Emperor En'yu
- Source
- Shin Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- Until when was it that I looked at the moon and no tears clouded it autumn came, and I have it and I long for autumn still
- I am tired of it this gazing: if there were a lodging outside fall but on moor and hill alike the moon is clear, and dwells there
- Those who make their homes over beyond the mountains do they see the moon of autumn without having to wait for it as we do
- In Yamato, through a break in the cloud above Takamado hill its light comes added to it the moon drawn like a half bow