秋されば雁飛び越ゆる龍田山
立ちても居ても君をしぞ思ふ
立ちても居ても君をしぞ思ふ
- Roma-ji
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Aki sareba kari tobikoyuru tatsutayama tachite mo ite mo kimi o shi zo omou
- English Translation
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When the autumn comes,
wild geese fly across the heights,
Tatsuta's mountain—
standing up or sitting down,
it is you I think of, you!
- Meaning
- Like Mount Tatsuta, which the wild geese cross in autumn—whether I stand or sit, it is you alone I think of.
- Commentary
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Book Ten Autumn Love Poems 2294
Headnote: "Love Expressed Through the Mountains"
Taking the "tatsu" of Mount Tatsuta, which the geese cross in autumn, as a lead, this poem sings of thinking only of the beloved whether standing or sitting. Its headnote is "Love Expressed Through the Mountains." The scene of Mount Tatsuta in the upper lines leads by sound into "tachite mo," standing, in the lower. Taking up the Tatsuta foliage crossed by geese in 2214 of the miscellaneous poems, the same scene becomes a preface to love in the love poems.
The first line, "when autumn comes," marks the season.
The second line, "that the geese fly over," describes the mountain.
The third line, "Mount Tatsuta," the mountain famed for autumn leaves, with the upper lines forming a preface leading into the homophonous "tachi."
The fourth line, "standing or sitting," means at all times.
In the last line, "kimi o shi zo omou," "shi" is emphatic and "zo" an emphatic particle in kakari-musubi with the attributive "omou."
- Source
- Manyoshu
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