夕さればいとど干がたきわが袖に
秋の露さへ置き添はりつつ
秋の露さへ置き添はりつつ
- Roma-ji
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Yū sareba itodo higataki waga sode ni aki no tsuyu sae okisowaritsutsu
- English Translation
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When evening comes
my sleeves, harder still to dry
wet with tears of love
now gather, on top of those
the dew of autumn too
- Meaning
- When evening comes, my sleeves, already hard to dry from tears of love, gather the autumn dew on top of it all.
- Commentary
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Book Eleven Love Poems I 545
Headnote: "Topic unknown"
The poem sings that on sleeves already never dry from the tears of longing that deepen at dusk, the autumn dew gathers as well, soaking them all the more. By overlaying tears with dew, it merges the loneliness of an autumn evening with the sorrow of love. The season moves on from the summer poems before it, and from here poems of love through autumn images follow.
The first line in the main text reads yu sareba, which does not match yugure wa in the kana reading line. Here the main text is followed.
First line, "When evening comes": yu sareba means when evening comes, the hour when longing deepens. Together with "autumn evening" in the next poem, 546, it continues the theme of love at autumn dusk.
Second line, "my sleeves, harder still to dry": itodo higataki means even harder to dry, with itodo meaning all the more.
Third line, "wet with tears of love": waga sode ni means on my sleeves, wet with tears of love.
Fourth line, "now gather, on top of those": in aki no tsuyu sae, sae means "even ... in addition," showing dew added to the tears.
Fifth line, "the dew of autumn too": okisowaritsutsu means settling on more and more, with tsutsu marking continuation. It depicts sleeves soaked all the more as tears and dew overlap.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
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