このころの秋風寒し萩の花
散らす白露置きにけらしも
散らす白露置きにけらしも
- Roma-ji
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Kono koro no akikaze samushi hagi no hana chirasu shiratsuyu okinikerashi mo
- English Translation
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In these days of late
the autumn wind blows cold;
bush clover blossoms—
white dew that scatters them
must have settled, so it seems.
- Meaning
- The autumn wind has grown cold these days. The white dew that scatters the bush clover blossoms must have settled.
- Commentary
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Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2175
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Dew"
From the chill of the autumn wind these days, this poem infers that the white dew that scatters the bush clover must have settled. Taking the cold felt on the skin as a clue, it imagines the unseen dew in the fields and the clover's falling. Like "in the autumn dawns of late" in 2141, it begins "kono koro no," sensing the passing of the season close at hand.
The first line, "of these days," sets the time.
The second line, "the autumn wind is cold," breaks the poem after the second line.
The third line, "the bush clover blossoms," names the flowers.
The fourth line, "the white dew that scatters them," names the dew.
In the last line, "okinikerashi mo," "kerashi" is inference about the past and "mo" exclamatory, closing by inferring from the cold wind that dew has settled.
- Source
- Manyoshu
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