秋風のうち吹くごとに高砂の
尾上の鹿の鳴かぬ日ぞなき
尾上の鹿の鳴かぬ日ぞなき
- Roma-ji
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Akikaze no uchifuku goto ni takasago no onoe no shika no nakanu hi zo naki
- English Translation
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Every time it blows,
the autumn wind, at Takasago,
from the mountain peak,
there is not a single day
that the deer does not cry out.
- Meaning
- Every time the autumn wind blows, there is not a day when the deer on the peak at Takasago does not cry.
- Commentary
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Book Three Autumn Poems 191
Headnote: "Topic unknown"
Each time the autumn wind blows, there is not a single day when the deer on the peak at Takasago does not cry. Overlaying the autumn wind with the deer's cry, the poem expresses a loneliness that grows as autumn deepens.
First line, "akikaze no," refers to the wind that blows in autumn.
Second line, "uchifuku goto ni," means "every time it blows," with "uchi" as a prefix. Taking up 189 of this book, which sang of a mountain that knows autumn by the sound of the wind, it links the wind with the deer.
Third line, "takasago no," refers to Takasago, a poetic place in Harima Province.
Fourth line, "onoe no shika no," means "of the deer on the peak." Following the deer of Mount Tokiwa in the preceding poem, it sings of the deer's cry.
Final line, "nakanu hi zo naki," means "there is no day it does not cry," with "zo" resolved by the attributive "naki." The double negative stresses that it cries every day. It ends in the same form as the final line of 197 in this book, "tatanu hi zo naki."
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Shui Wakashu
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