玉寄する浦わの風に空晴れて
光を交はす秋の夜の月
光を交はす秋の夜の月
- Roma-ji
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Tama yosuru urawa no kaze ni sora harete hikari o kawasu aki no yo no tsuki
- English Translation
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In the wind of the bay
that brings the jeweled waves ashore,
the sky has cleared,
and they trade their light together
with the moon of autumn night
- Meaning
- In the wind along the bay that drives the jewel-like waves ashore, the sky has cleared, and the moon of the autumn night exchanges its light with them.
- Commentary
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Book Four Autumn Poems I 282
Headnote: "Composed by the Retired Emperor as a moon poem when he called for hundred-poem sequences"
Composed by Retired Emperor Sutoku himself on "the moon" when he called for hundred-poem sequences. The wind along the bay, which drives white waves ashore like jewels, has swept away the clouds and cleared the sky, and the moon of the autumn night exchanges its light with the jewels of the waves. The poem paints a bright, clear moonlit night on the shore, the moon in the sky and the waves in the bay lighting each other.
The author, "Poem by Retired Emperor Sutoku," is Emperor Sutoku, eldest son of Emperor Toba. Defeated in the Hōgen Disturbance, he was exiled to Sanuki and died there. He loved poetry deeply and is known for calling for the Kyūan Hundred-Poem Sequence. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
This poem and the next three, through 285, are moon poems from the Kyūan Hundred-Poem Sequence that Retired Emperor Sutoku called for. This poem's "urawa no kaze ni sora harete" and the "ura fuku kaze ni kiri harete" of 285 both depict the sky cleared by the wind of a bay and the moon shining clear, so the first and last poems of the group answer each other.
First line, "tama yosuru": "driving ashore waves like jewels," modifying "urawa" in the second line.
Second line, "urawa no kaze ni": "urawa" is the curve of a bay, its shore. Like "ura fuku kaze ni" in 285 of this book, it speaks of the wind of a bay.
Third line, "sora harete": "the clouds swept by the wind and the sky cleared," answering "kiri harete" in 285 of this book.
Fourth line, "hikari o kawasu": the moon and the jewels of the waves exchanging their light.
Fifth line, "aki no yo no tsuki": ends on a noun, naming the subject at the close. Poems 286 and 292 of this book end with the same line.
- Author
- Retired Emperor Sutoku
- Source
- Senzai Wakashu
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