あき風の吹きと吹きぬる武蔵野は
なべて草葉の色変はりけり
なべて草葉の色変はりけり
- Roma-ji
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Akikaze no fuki to fukinuru musashino wa nabete kusaba no iro kawarikeri
- English Translation
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Where the autumn wind
has blown and blown on and on,
in Musashino
all the leaves of all the grass
have altered their colors now
- Meaning
- On the plain of Musashino, where the autumn wind has blown and blown, the leaves of all the grasses have changed their color. So too, grown weary of me, your heart has changed entirely.
- Commentary
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Book Fifteen Love Poems V 821
Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poem depicts the grasses of Musashino changing color everywhere after the autumn wind has swept across, and layers onto this the lover's complete change of heart. Outwardly an autumn scene of a vast plain, it puts weariness into aki to show that the change of heart is total. Following the "autumn of the heart" in the preceding poem, poems pairing the autumn wind with weariness continue.
In the first line aki is a pivot word, meaning both autumn and weariness, the wind carrying a change of heart. The next poem begins with the same word.
The second line repeats the verb, fuki to fuki, to stress unceasing blowing, and nuru is the perfective attributive.
The third line names the vast plain of Musashino, a poetic place known for grassland as far as the eye can see.
In the fourth line nabete means "all over," showing the change reaches everywhere.
In the last line keri expresses realization that the color of the grass has changed, layered with the lover's changed heart.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Prev Poem
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Shiguretsutsu momizuru yori mo kotonoha no kokoro no aki ni au zo wabishiki
- Next Poem
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Akikaze ni au tanomi koso kanashikere waga mi munashiku narinu to omoeba