時しもあれ秋しも人の別るれば
いとど袂ぞ露けかりける
いとど袂ぞ露けかりける
- Roma-ji
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Toki shimo are aki shimo hito no wakarureba itodo tamoto zo tsuyukekarikeru
- English Translation
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Of all times to choose,
in the autumn above all
someone goes away,
and so my sleeves are soaked
all the more with dew and tears.
- Meaning
- There are other times, yet it is in autumn of all seasons that you leave, and so my sleeves are wet with dew all the more.
- Commentary
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Book Six Parting Poems 308
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The poet says that though there are other times, it is in the sorrowful autumn of all seasons that someone departs, and so the sleeves are soaked all the more with dew and tears. Overlaying the dampness of autumn dew with the tears of parting, the poem shows the melancholy of the season and the grief of parting deepening each other.
First line, "toki shimo are," means "though there are other times," with "shimo" an emphatic particle.
Second line, "aki shimo hito no," means "in autumn of all times, someone," repeating the "shimo" of the first line for emphasis. After the autumn wind of 306 two poems earlier, a parting in autumn is sung of.
Third line, "wakarureba," means "since they part," the perfective form with "ba" expressing a reason.
Fourth line, "itodo tamoto zo," means "all the more, my sleeves," emphasized by the particle "zo."
Final line, "tsuyukekarikeru," means "how wet with dew they are," with "zo" resolved by the attributive "keru." 344 of this book also ends with the same "tsuyukekarikeru," singing of the dew on a traveler's grass pillow.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Shui Wakashu
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