さざ波や比良の高嶺の山おろし
紅葉を湖のものとなしつる
紅葉を湖のものとなしつる
- Roma-ji
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Sazanami ya Hira no takane no yamaoroshi momiji o umi no mono to nashitsuru
- English Translation
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Where the ripples lap,
from the high peaks of Hira
the mountain wind
has made the autumn leaves
the property of the lake
- Meaning
- The wind blowing down from the high peaks of Hira has made the mountain's autumn leaves the lake's own.
- Commentary
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Book Five Autumn Poems II 366
Headnote: "Composed on the topic 'Falling Leaves on the Lake'"
Composed on the topic "Falling Leaves on the Lake." The wind blowing down from the high peaks of Hira, the poet says, has scattered the autumn leaves that belonged to the mountain and made them the lake's. Through the view that the leaves change owners, from mountain to lake, he depicts the fallen leaves coloring the water.
The author, "Gyōbukyō Norikane," is Fujiwara no Norikane, son of Fujiwara no Yoshikane, who rose to Minister of Justice. Versed in poetic learning, he wrote the treatise Waka Dōmōshō.
Like 361 of this book, it sings of the "yamaoroshi," the mountain wind, carrying the autumn leaves.
First line, "sazanami ya": a pillow word for place names in Ōmi such as "Hira."
Second line, "Hira no takane no": Hira is the mountain range rising on the western shore of Lake Biwa in Ōmi.
Third line, "yamaoroshi": the wind blowing down from the mountains, the same word as the first line "yamaoroshi ni" of 361 of this book. The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "momiji o umi no": "umi" here is Lake Biwa, contrasting mountain and lake as the mountain's leaves become the lake's.
Fifth line, "mono to nashitsuru": "tsuru" is the attributive of the perfective "tsu," an attributive ending charged with feeling.
- Author
- Fujiwara no Norikane
- Source
- Senzai Wakashu
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