里ゆ異に霜は置くらし高松の
野山づかさの色づく見れば
野山づかさの色づく見れば
- Roma-ji
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Sato yu ke ni shimo wa okurashi takamatsu no noyamazukasa no irozuku mireba
- English Translation
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More than in the village,
frost must settle there, I think,
at Takamatsu,
for the heights of fields and hills
I can see are changing hue.
- Meaning
- The frost must settle more heavily there than in the village, for I see the high ground of the fields and hills of Takamatsu turning color.
- Commentary
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Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2203
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Autumn Leaves"
Seeing the high ground of the fields and hills of Takamatsu turning color, this poem infers that frost must settle there more than in the village. Against the belief that frost hastens autumn color, it reads the difference in cold between village and hills from the leaves' coloring. Like the preceding poem it ends with "irozuku mireba," inferring the state of the season from the coloring.
In the first line, "sato yu ke ni," "yu" marks the standard of comparison and "ke ni" means especially: more than in the village.
In the second line, "shimo wa okurashi," "rashi" marks grounded inference, and the poem breaks here.
The third line, "of Takamatsu," is thought to be Takamato.
In the fourth line, "noyamazukasa no," "tsukasa" means high ground.
The last line, "irozuku mireba," is the same ending as the preceding poem, closing with the grounds for inference.
- Source
- Manyoshu
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