さらぬだに秋の旅寝は悲しきに
松に吹くなりとこの山風
松に吹くなりとこの山風
- Roma-ji
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Saranu dani aki no tabine wa kanashiki ni matsu ni fuku nari toko no yamakaze
- English Translation
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Even were it not,
sleeping on an autumn road
would be sad enough,
and through the pines I hear it blow,
the wind on Toko's mountain.
- Meaning
- Even without it, sleeping on the road in autumn is sad enough, and yet I hear it blowing through the pines: the mountain wind of Toko, beside my bed.
- Commentary
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Book Ten Travel Poems 967
Headnote: "Composed as a travel poem."
This is the third of a sequence of poems on scenes and thoughts along the road. Sleeping on the road in autumn is sad enough, yet the mountain wind of Toko blows through the pines near the traveler's bed, the sorrow of an autumn night on the road. According to the headnote, it was composed as a travel poem.
The author, Fujiwara no Hideyoshi, was a poet of the early Kamakura period. He served Retired Emperor Go-Toba as a guard of the Northern Quarter.
The scene is an autumn night sleeping on the road, at Mount Toko in Ōmi Province.
The direct occasion is composing on the topic of "travel."
The text carries a variant note giving "te" for "nu," but "nu" is adopted in accordance with the main text and the reading line.
The first line, "saranu dani," means "even were it not so." "Dani" names a lesser thing to imply a greater.
The second line, "aki no tabine wa," means "sleeping on the road in autumn." Autumn nights on the road, sung of since 920, are taken up again here.
The third line, "kanashiki ni," means "is sad enough, and yet." The particle "ni" leads on to what is added to the sadness.
The fourth line, "matsu ni fuku nari," means "I hear it blowing through the pines." "Nari" infers from sound; lying in bed, the traveler hears the wind in the pines.
In the last line, "toko no yamakaze," "toko" carries both "toko," the traveler's bed, and Mount Toko, a famous place in Ōmi Province. Taking up "akikaze zo fuku" in the preceding poem, poems of wind continue; there the autumn wind blows on the road where lodging is sought, while here it is the mountain wind heard from bed.
- Author
- Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
- Source
- Shin Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- By the roadside here, where the grasses are green, I rein in my horse and still, even now, look back toward the home I left behind.
- Crossing Hatsuse's mountain as the evening fell, I asked for lodging; through the cypress groves of Miwa only the autumn wind blows.
- Let me forget it: do not tell me they are waiting, that makes it worse— you, autumn wind on the peak of Mount Inaba, pine-clad.
- Though we made no pledge, a single night has passed us by; at Kiyomigata parting from the ocean waves, the clouds of the breaking dawn.