秋の月千々に心を砕ききて
今宵一夜に堪へずもあるかな
今宵一夜に堪へずもあるかな
- Roma-ji
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Aki no tsuki chiji ni kokoro o kudakikite koyoi hitoyo ni taezu mo aru kana
- English Translation
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The autumn moon
has broken my heart
in a thousand ways,
and on this one night tonight
I can bear it no longer
- Meaning
- All autumn long the moon has broken my heart in a thousand ways, and on this one night I can bear it no longer.
- Commentary
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Book Five Autumn Poems II 337
Headnote: "Composed on the thirteenth night"
Composed on the spirit of the thirteenth night. All through autumn, gazing at the moon, the poet has worried his heart in a thousand ways, and on this one night of the thirteenth he can bear it no longer. He depicts how the brooding of the whole autumn gathers and overflows on this single night of the famous moon.
The author is given as "yomibito shirazu," meaning that the poet's name has not come down to us.
Ever since Ōe no Chisato's Kokin Wakashū poem, "When I gaze at the moon, a thousand things are sad," a heart scattered in a thousand ways by the moon had been a staple of autumn poetry. Following the preceding poem, 336, it sings of the moon of the thirteenth night.
First line, "aki no tsuki": the moon gazed at all through autumn. The long season of autumn is set against the single night of "koyoi hitoyo" in the fourth line.
Second line, "chiji ni kokoro o": "chiji ni" means "in a thousand ways."
Third line, "kudakikite": "kudaku" is to torment the heart, and "kite" means "having gone on doing so."
Fourth line, "koyoi hitoyo ni": "on this single night," the thirteenth of the ninth month. It takes up "koyoi no tsuki" in the preceding poem, 336, and pairs with "aki" in the first line.
Fifth line, "taezu mo aru kana": "I cannot bear it," with the exclamatory "kana."
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Senzai Wakashu
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