おほかたの秋の空だにわびしきに
物思ひ添ふる君にもあるかな
物思ひ添ふる君にもあるかな
- Roma-ji
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Ōkata no aki no sora dani wabishiki ni mono omoi souru kimi ni mo aru kana
- English Translation
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Even the autumn sky
as it ordinarily is
fills me with gloom,
and yet you are one who adds
still more brooding to my heart
- Meaning
- Even the ordinary autumn sky fills me with gloom, and yet you are one who adds still more brooding to my heart.
- Commentary
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Book Seven Autumn Poems III 423
Headnote: "Sent around the ninth month, when a man she knew had not visited for a long time."
She says that even the ordinary autumn sky is dreary, and yet he is one who adds still more brooding to it. She reproaches the lover who does not come as one who piles further sorrow onto the gloom of autumn.
According to the headnote, it was sent around the ninth month when a man close to her had not visited for a long time. 278 in Book Six, Emperor Daigo's "ōkata mo aki wa wabishiki toki naredo," likewise builds on the dreariness of autumn itself.
The poet, Ukon, was a daughter of Fujiwara no Suenawa, lesser captain of the Right Palace Guards, and served Fujiwara no Onshi, empress of Emperor Daigo. Her "wasuraruru mi o ba omowazu chikaiteshi" is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
The first line, "Ōkata no," means "ordinary, of the common sort."
In the second line, "dani" means "even": "even the autumn sky."
The third line, "wabishiki ni," means "though it is dreary."
The fourth line, "mono omoi souru," means "adding more brooding."
In the last line, "kana" is an exclamatory particle: "such a one are you."
- Author
- Ukon
- Source
- Gosen Wakashu
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