我が待ちし秋は来りぬ妹と我れと
何事あれぞ紐解かずあらむ
何事あれぞ紐解かずあらむ
- Roma-ji
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Waga machishi aki wa kitarinu imo to are to nanigoto are zo himo tokazu aramu
- English Translation
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That which I awaited,
autumn now at last has come;
my darling and I,
for what reason should we two
leave our sashes still untied?
- Meaning
- The autumn I waited for has come at last—what reason could there be for my wife and me not to loosen our sashes?
- Commentary
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Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2036
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Tanabata"
This poem, in the Herdsman's voice, rejoices that the long-awaited autumn has come, so how could he and his wife not lie together? The strong rhetorical phrasing shows the exhilaration of reaching the time of a meeting awaited for a whole year. Like "the autumn bush clover I waited for has bloomed" in 2014, it begins "waga machishi," rejoicing at the arrival of the awaited autumn.
The first line, "that I waited for," is the same opening as 2014.
In the second line, "aki wa kitarinu," "nu" marks completion, and the poem breaks here.
The third line, "my wife and I," is hypermetric.
In the fourth line, "nanigoto are zo," "zo" is emphatic: for what reason?
The last line, "himo tokazu aramu," would we leave our sashes tied?, carries a rhetorical sense, closing with a strong wish to lie together.
- Source
- Manyoshu
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