いつも聞くものとや人の思ふらむ
来ぬ夕暮れの秋風の声
来ぬ夕暮れの秋風の声
- Roma-ji
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Itsumo kiku mono to ya hito no omouramu konu yūgure no akikaze no koe
- English Translation
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Does that one believe
it's a sound I always hear,
something commonplace,
the voice of the autumn wind
at dusk when no one comes?
- Meaning
- Does that person think it is only the sound I always hear, the voice of the autumn wind on an evening when no one comes?
- Commentary
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Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 1310
Headnote: "For a poetry contest at my house."
This is the seventh poem of the sequence on waiting for a lover, sung through the wind. Does that person think it the same sound I always hear, the speaker wonders, the voice of the autumn wind on an evening when no one comes? According to the headnote, it was composed for a poetry contest held at the author's house.
The author, "the Regent and Grand Minister," is Fujiwara no Yoshitsune. A son of the Chancellor Kujō Kanezane, he rose to regent and grand minister and was called the Go-Kyōgoku Regent. He wrote the Japanese preface to the Shinkokinshū.
The first line, "itsumo kiku," means "always heard." It takes up "kiku mono o" in the preceding poem.
In the second line, "mono to ya hito no," "ya" is interrogative, answered by "ramu" in the third line. "Hito" refers to the lover.
The third line, "omouramu," means "do they think?" and the poem breaks after it.
The fourth line, "konu yūgure no," means "of the evening when you do not come."
The last line, "akikaze no koe," ends on a noun. The speaker resents that the other cannot know how differently the same autumn wind sounds on an evening when no one comes. The wind Princess Shikishi claimed to hear without heed in the preceding poem is here a voice that cannot be ignored.
- Author
- Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
- Source
- Shin Kokin Wakashu
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Ima wa tada kokoro no hoka ni kiku mono o shirazugao naru ogi no uwakaze
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Kokoro araba fukazu mo aranamu yoiyoi ni hito matsu yado no niwa no matsukaze