ながめわびぬ柴の編戸のあけがたに
山の端近く残る月影
山の端近く残る月影
- Roma-ji
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Nagamewabinu shiba no amido no akegata ni yama no ha chikaku nokoru tsukikage
- English Translation
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I am tired of gazing—
at dawn, as I open wide
my woven brushwood door,
there near the rim of the hills
the moonlight is lingering.
- Meaning
- I have grown weary of gazing—at dawn, as I open my woven brushwood door, the moonlight lingers near the mountain rim.
- Commentary
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Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 1526
Headnote: "Composed on the spirit of 'A Mountain Dwelling.'"
This is the sixth poem of the sequence on the moon lingering at dawn. Weary of gazing all night, the poet opens his woven brushwood door at dawn and sees the moon lingering near the mountain rim. According to the headnote, it was composed on the topic "A Mountain Dwelling."
The author, "Yūen Hōshi," was a monk of the early Kamakura period.
"A Mountain Dwelling" is a topic on a dwelling in a mountain village.
The first line, "nagamewabinu," is hypermetric and means "I have grown weary even of gazing." The poem breaks after the first line.
The second line, "shiba no amido no," refers to a rough door woven of brushwood. It shows the loneliness of a mountain dwelling.
The third line, "akegata ni," plays on "akegata," dawn, and "akeru," to open the door. It overlays the act of opening the woven door with the hour of daybreak.
The fourth line, "yama no ha chikaku," says the moon is drawing near the mountain ridge. It shows the moon about to set.
The last line, "nokoru tsukikage," ends on a noun. Following the deep-mountain moons of the two preceding poems, it sings of the lingering dawn moon seen from a mountain dwelling.
- Author
- Yūen
- Source
- Shin Kokin Wakashu
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