散り果てて後さへ風を厭ふかな
紅葉を葺ける深山辺の里
紅葉を葺ける深山辺の里
- Roma-ji
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Chirihatete nochi sae kaze o itou kana momiji o fukeru miyamabe no sato
- English Translation
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Even after all
have fallen, still I dread
the blowing of the wind,
in the village of deep mountains
roofed with scarlet leaves
- Meaning
- Even after the leaves have all fallen, I still dread the wind in this village deep in the mountains, its roofs thatched with autumn leaves.
- Commentary
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Book Six Winter Poems 418
Headnote: "Composed as a poem on fallen leaves"
Composed as a poem on fallen leaves. Even after the leaves have all fallen, the poet says, he still dreads the wind in this village deep in the mountains, its roofs thatched with autumn leaves. It is usual to dread the wind for scattering the leaves on the branches, but here the conceit is that he dreads it even after they have fallen, loath to see the leaves piled on the roofs blown away.
The author, "Fujiwara no Morimasa," was a poet of the cloistered-rule period, but little is known of his life.
Where 390 of this book sings of a garden buried in falling leaves, this poem sings of village roofs thatched with fallen leaves, catching where the scattered leaves come to rest in another place.
First line, "chirihatete": "chirihatsu" is to fall completely.
Second line, "nochi sae kaze o": "sae," "even," "even after they have all fallen."
Third line, "itou kana": "itou" is to dislike or shun, and "kana" is exclamatory. The poem pauses here, its order inverted with the lower verse.
Fourth line, "momiji o fukeru": "fuku" is to roof, likening the fallen leaves covering the roofs to a thatch of leaves.
Fifth line, "miyamabe no sato": the poem ends on a noun, singing of "miyamabe" as 411 of this book does.
- Author
- Fujiwara no Morimasa
- Source
- Senzai Wakashu
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