秋田刈る仮廬を作り我が居れば
衣手寒く露ぞ置きにける
衣手寒く露ぞ置きにける
- Roma-ji
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Akita karu kariio o tsukuri waga oreba koromode samuku tsuyu zo okinikeru
- English Translation
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Reaping autumn fields,
building a temporary hut,
as I stay in it,
cold my sleeves have grown, and there
the dew has come to settle.
- Meaning
- As I stay in the makeshift hut I built for reaping the autumn fields, my sleeves grow cold, and the dew has settled on them.
- Commentary
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Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2174
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Dew"
This poem notices, while staying in a makeshift hut built for harvesting the autumn fields, that the sleeves have grown cold and dew has settled on them. The loneliness of a temporary lodging for farm work and the chill of an autumn night are felt through the dew on the sleeves. Like the makeshift hut with bush clover in 2100, it is set in a temporary lodging for the autumn harvest, and its resemblance to Emperor Tenji's later poem in the Hyakunin Isshu, "In the autumn fields, the hut's thatch is coarse, and my sleeves are wet with dew," has been noted.
The first line, "reaping the autumn fields," names the work.
The second line, "building a makeshift hut," sings of the same "kariio" as 2100.
The third line, "as I stay there," uses "ba" as an established condition.
In the fourth line, "koromode samuku," "koromode" means sleeves.
In the last line, "tsuyu zo okinikeru," "zo" is an emphatic particle in kakari-musubi with the attributive "keru," closing with the discovery of dew on the sleeves.
- Source
- Manyoshu
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