心にはいつもあきなる寝覚めかな
身にしむ風の幾夜ともなく
身にしむ風の幾夜ともなく
- Roma-ji
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Kokoro ni wa itsumo aki naru nezame kana mi ni shimu kaze no ikuyo tomo naku
- English Translation
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In my heart it is
always autumn, wearied of,
waking in the night,
with a wind that pierces through
me, how many nights, uncounted.
- Meaning
- In my heart it is always autumn, the season of being tired of, as I wake in the night, with a wind that pierces my body for more nights than I can count.
- Commentary
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Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 1306
Headnote: "Topic unknown."
This is the third poem of the sequence on waiting for a lover, sung through the wind. It is always autumn in my heart when I wake in the night, the speaker says, with a piercing wind for countless nights. The headnote gives no topic, and the circumstances of composition are not recorded.
The author is given as "Anonymous," and the name has not come down to us.
The first line, "kokoro ni wa," means "in my heart." It speaks not of the season outside but of the season of the heart.
In the second line, "itsumo aki naru," "aki" is a pivot word meaning both "autumn" and being "tired of" by the beloved.
The third line, "nezame kana," is waking suddenly in the night; the poem breaks after this exclamatory line.
The fourth line, "mi ni shimu kaze no," means "of the wind that pierces the body." It takes up the autumn wind of the preceding poem.
The last line, "ikuyo tomo naku," means "for more nights than can be counted," and runs back in inverted order to the waking of the upper lines. Whatever the season, the autumn of being wearied of goes on, and night after night the speaker wakes again.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Shin Kokin Wakashu
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