君が手をかれゆく秋の末にしも
野飼ひに放つ馬ぞ悲しき
野飼ひに放つ馬ぞ悲しき
- Roma-ji
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Kimi ga te o kareyuku aki no sue ni shi mo nogai ni hanatsu uma zo kanashiki
- English Translation
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Leaving your kind hand
as autumn withers away,
now at its very end,
a horse turned loose on the moors—
how sad a thing am I
- Meaning
- Parted from your hand at the very end of autumn, as the grasses wither, I am like a horse turned loose to graze the moors—how sad it is.
- Commentary
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Book Nineteen Parting Poems 1312
Headnote: "Reply."
Muma says it is sad to be a horse leaving your hand and turned out to graze at the end of withering autumn. Taking up the horse of the preceding poem, she likens herself, leaving one dear to her to set out on a journey, to a horse loosed on the late-autumn moors, and tells of her loneliness at parting.
It is the reply to the preceding poem.
The poet is given as "Muma," which according to the headnote was the name of the person going to Ise; little is known of this person.
The first line, "Kimi ga te o," means "your hand."
The second line, "kareyuku aki no," is a pivot word on "kare," both leaving and withering: leaving your hand, and the autumn when grasses wither.
The third line, "sue ni shi mo," means "at its very end," with "shimo" emphatic.
The fourth line, "nogai ni hanatsu," means "turned loose to graze the fields."
The last line, "uma zo kanashiki," means "the horse is sad," taking up the departing horse of the preceding poem and the poet's name Muma. "Zo" is closed by the attributive "kanashiki."
- Author
- Muma
- Source
- Gosen Wakashu
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