夏の夜の月はほどなく明けぬれば
朝の間をぞかこちよせつる
朝の間をぞかこちよせつる
- Roma-ji
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Natsu no yo no tsuki wa hodo naku akenureba ashita no ma o zo kakochiyosetsuru
- English Translation
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On a summer night
the moon, before I know it,
is lost in the dawn,
so it is the morning hour
that I reproach and blame for this
- Meaning
- On a summer night the moon is gone so soon with the dawn that I lay the blame on the hours of morning.
- Commentary
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Book Four Summer Poems 206
Headnote: "Topic unknown."
Because the summer night's moon gives way so soon to dawn, the poet lays the blame on the morning hours. He turns toward the morning his resentment of a short night that ends before he can gaze his fill at the moon.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us. The text gives the author as "yomibito mo," but it is treated here as anonymous.
The first line, "Natsu no yo no," means "of the short summer night." "Natsu no yo" also appears in 169 through 171 and in 191 of this book.
The second line, "tsuki wa hodo naku," means "the moon soon," showing how short the time to view it is.
In the third line, "nure" is the perfective form of the completive auxiliary "nu," and "ba" marks a settled condition: "because it soon dawns."
The fourth line, "ashita no ma o zo," means "the morning hours," with "zo" as an emphatic particle.
In the last line, "kakochiyosu" means to blame something else, and the attributive "tsuru" completes the kakarimusubi pattern with "zo" in the fourth line.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Gosen Wakashu
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