荒れ果てて風もさはらぬ苔の庵に
我はなくとも露は漏りけん
我はなくとも露は漏りけん
- Roma-ji
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Arehatete kaze mo sawaranu koke no io ni ware wa naku tomo tsuyu wa moriken
- English Translation
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Into my mossy hut,
fallen to ruin, where no wall
stops even the wind,
though I myself was not there,
the dew must have come dripping.
- Meaning
- Into my ruined mossy hut, which does not even keep out the wind, the dew must surely have dripped, though I myself was not there.
- Commentary
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Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1631
Headnote: "The holy man, seeing it later, replied."
This is the second poem of the exchange on a mossy hut and the reply to the preceding poem. Into the ruined mossy hut that cannot keep out the wind, the dew must have leaked, though he himself was absent. According to the headnote, it is the reply of the holy man who kept the hut, after he saw what had been written.
No author is named in the original. The headnote shows it to be the reply of the holy man who lived in the hut, but his name has not come down.
The first line, "arehatete," means "fallen utterly to ruin."
The second line, "kaze mo sawaranu," means "not keeping out even the wind." Like "kaze mo sawarazu," the last line of 1627 in this book, it expresses the humbleness of a mossy robe or hut.
The third line, "koke no io ni," takes up directly "koke no iori," the first line of the preceding poem.
The fourth line, "ware wa naku tomo," means "even though I was not there." It answers "kimi masade" of the preceding poem.
The last line, "tsuyu wa moriken," means "the dew must have dripped in." It closes with "ken," the auxiliary of past conjecture. Taking up "michi no tsuyukesa" of the preceding poem, it answers the dew of the visitor's tears: though the master was away, the dew leaking into the hut must have received him.
- Source
- Shin Kokin Wakashu
- Prev Poem
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Koke no iori sashite kitsuredo kimi masade kaeru miyama no michi no tsuyukesa
- Next Poem
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Yama fukaku sa koso kokoro wa kayou tomo sumade aware o shiran mono ka wa