我が門の晩稲の引板に驚きて
むろの刈田に鴫ぞ立つなる
むろの刈田に鴫ぞ立つなる
- Roma-ji
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Waga kado no okute no hita ni odorokite muro no karita ni shigi zo tatsu naru
- English Translation
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Before my gate
at the clappers in the late rice,
startled by the sound,
from the reaped fields of Muro
I hear the snipe take wing
- Meaning
- Startled by the clappers in the late rice before my gate, the snipe rise, I hear, from the reaped fields of Muro.
- Commentary
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Book Five Autumn Poems II 327
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
Startled by the clappers sounded in the late-ripening rice before the poet's gate, he hears the snipe rise from the reaped fields of Muro. With two sounds, the clappers and the beating of the snipe's wings, he depicts a country scene in late autumn.
The author, "Minamoto no Kanemasa," was the son of Minamoto no Toshisuke. He served as Junior Secretary of the Empress's Household among other posts and later took holy orders. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Taking up "odorokasu" in the preceding poem, 326, this poem sings of snipe rising "startled."
First line, "waga kado no": "before my gate," pointing to the field of "okute" in the second line. Like "kadota" in 325 of this book, it sings of the field before the house.
Second line, "okute no hita ni": "okute" is late-ripening rice, and "hita" are clappers, boards hung with bamboo and rattled by a rope to drive off birds and beasts.
Third line, "odorokite": "startled by the clappers," pairing with "odorokasu" in the preceding poem, 326.
Fourth line, "muro no karita ni": "karita" is a field after the rice has been cut. "Muro" may be read as a place name, but this is uncertain.
Fifth line, "shigi zo tatsu naru": "zo" closes with the attributive "naru," which infers from sound, "I hear the snipe rising."
- Author
- Minamoto no Kanemasa
- Source
- Senzai Wakashu
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