秋風の吹き扱き敷ける花の庭
清き月夜に見れど飽かぬかも
清き月夜に見れど飽かぬかも
- Roma-ji
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Akikaze no fukikoki shikeru hana no niwa kiyoki tsukuyo ni miredo akanu kamo
- English Translation
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The autumn wind blows
and strips the blossoms, strewing
the courtyard with flowers;
in the clear light of the moon
I can never see enough
- Meaning
- The courtyard strewn with flowers stripped by the autumn wind, I can never tire of seeing it under the clear moonlight.
- Commentary
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Book Twenty Miscellaneous Poems 4453
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On the thirteenth day of the eighth month, a banquet held in the southern Yasumidono hall of the palace; two poems."
The courtyard strewn with flowers stripped by the autumn wind, I never tire of seeing under the clear moon: the poem praises the beauty of the palace garden. The left note says it is by Ōtomo no Yakamochi, Junior Assistant Minister of Military Affairs, junior fifth rank upper, and that it was not presented. Taking up the falling flowers of the preceding poem, it pictures the garden carpeted with blossoms beneath the moon in praise of the banquet scene.
The author, Ōtomo no Yakamochi, son of Ōtomo no Tabito, was at this time Junior Assistant Minister of Military Affairs.
The first line, "akikaze no," takes up the fourth line of the preceding poem, "the autumn wind blows."
The second line, "fukikoki shikeru," means the wind has stripped the blossoms and spread them over the ground.
The third line, "hana no niwa," "the flower-strewn garden," takes up "this courtyard" of the preceding poem.
The fourth line, "kiyoki tsukuyo ni," "on a clear moonlit night," is the moonlight of the thirteenth of the eighth month.
The closing line, "miredo akanu kamo," "I never tire of looking," is a stock close of praise, the same as the last line of Yakamochi's poem two before.
- Author
- Otomo no Yakamochi
- Source
- Manyoshu
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