深山辺の松の梢を渡るなり
嵐に宿すさを鹿の声
嵐に宿すさを鹿の声
- Roma-ji
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Miyamabe no matsu no kozue o wataru nari arashi ni yadosu saoshika no koe
- English Translation
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Through the pine treetops
near the deep mountains it seems
to go crossing on—
lodged within the raging storm,
the voice of the calling stag
- Meaning
- It seems to pass across the tops of the pines near the deep mountains—the voice of the stag, lodged within the storm wind.
- Commentary
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Book Five Autumn Poems II 442
Headnote: "When I presented a hundred-poem sequence; an autumn poem."
This is the sixth poem of the deer sequence. The stag's voice, riding the storm, seems to pass over the tops of the pines in the deep mountains. According to the headnote, it was composed as an autumn poem in a hundred-poem sequence.
The author was a son of Emperor Takakura and an elder brother of Retired Emperor Go-Toba.
The scene is autumn with a storm blowing, in the pine woods near the deep mountains.
The direct occasion was Retired Emperor Go-Toba's First Hundred-Poem Sequences of 1200.
The first line, "miyamabe no," means "near the deep mountains."
The second line presents the tops of the pines as the path the voice travels.
In the third line, "nari" is the auxiliary of inference from sound. Its subject is "the voice of the stag" in the last line, in inverted order, and it conveys the voice seeming to move from treetop to treetop.
The fourth line, "arashi ni yadosu," means that the stag lodges its voice in the storm, a personification of the voice traveling as one with the wind. It renders the voice carried on the mountain wind in 438 with still greater motion.
The last line ends on a noun and is identical to the last lines of 439 and 444. In particular, 444 depicts the voice brought by the storm returning to the summit as the storm slackens, so the voice going out here and the voice returning there form a pair.
- Author
- Prince Koreakira
- Source
- Shin Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- Where the tempest blows across the kudzu meadow the stag calling there— is it only with reproach that he yearns after his mate?
- Seeking out the place where the stag who yearns for love has made his standing, I find at the mountain's foot only the autumn wind blows
- Do others as well, not I alone, feel their hearts deepen into grief on the mountain where stags cry in the dusk of autumn days?
- Has the pine-tree gale that brought it along grown slack? Back toward the peak returning now, it fades off— the voice of the calling stag