あき果てて時雨ふりぬる我なれば
散る言の葉をなにか恨みむ
散る言の葉をなにか恨みむ
- Roma-ji
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Akihatete shigure furinuru ware nareba chiru koto no ha o nani ka uramimu
- English Translation
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Autumn now over,
weathered by the winter showers
is what I have become;
the leaves of words that scatter—
why should I resent them now
- Meaning
- Since I am one who has been tired of utterly, as autumn ends, and grown old in tears like falling showers, why should I resent your words that scatter like leaves?
- Commentary
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Book Eight Winter Poems 448
Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet says that since she has been tired of, as autumn ends, and has grown old amid tears like showers, she has no cause to resent her lover's words that scatter like leaves. Entrusting her feelings to the things of winter, the poem expresses resignation toward a lover whose heart has changed.
Though cast as a seasonal poem, it is a poem of love. 450 also opens with "aki hatete" and uses "shigure," "furi" and "koto no ha" in the same way, so that the two poems share a single conceit.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us. The text gives the poet as "yomibito mo," which is treated here as "anonymous."
In the first line, "aki" is a pivot word meaning both "autumn" and "aki," being tired of by a lover.
In the second line, "furi" is a pivot word meaning both the showers "falling" and oneself "growing old." The showers suggest tears.
The third line, "ware nareba," means "since I am such a one," giving the reason.
In the fourth line, "koto no ha," words, contains "ha," leaf, an associated word with "chiru," to scatter, so that the lover's words fall away like leaves.
In the last line, "ka" is a rhetorical particle forming a kakarimusubi pattern with "mu": "why should I resent them? I will not."
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Gosen Wakashu
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