秋風し日ごとに吹けば我が宿の
岡の木の葉は色づきにけり
岡の木の葉は色づきにけり
- Roma-ji
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Akikaze shi higoto ni fukeba waga yado no oka no konoha wa irozukinikeri
- English Translation
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Since the autumn wind
blows on, day after day,
at my dwelling here
the leaves upon the hillside
have taken on their colors.
- Meaning
- Because the autumn wind blows day after day, the leaves of the trees on the hill by my house have turned to autumn colors.
- Commentary
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Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Autumn Poems 1114
Headnote: "Topic unknown"
The poet says that because the autumn wind blows every day, the leaves on the hill by his house have taken on their full colors. In the ceaseless autumn wind he feels the deepening of the season.
In Book Ten of the Man'yōshū there is a similar poem whose third line is "mizukuki no."
The author, written as "Hitomaro," is Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, the foremost poet of the Man'yōshū, revered in later ages as the saint of poetry. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets. The Shūishū includes many poems from the Man'yōshū and the Hitomaro Collection under his name.
First line, "akikaze shi," means "the autumn wind," with "shi" an emphatic particle. It stands beside the first line of the preceding poem, 1113, "akikaze no," as poems that open with the autumn wind.
Second line, "higoto ni fukeba," means "since it blows every day," with "ba" attached to the perfective form giving the cause.
Third line, "waga yado no," means "of my house," the same words as the third line of the preceding poem, 1113.
Fourth line, "oka no konoha wa," means "the leaves of the trees on the hill."
Final line, "irozukinikeri," means "have taken on their colors," with "ni" perfective and "keri" a sigh of realization. It shares the same line with the final lines of 1118 and 1119 in this book, "irozukinikeri."
- Author
- Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
- Source
- Shui Wakashu
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Akikaze no samuku fuku naru waga yado no asaji ga moto ni higurashi mo naku
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