世とともにつれなき人を恋草の
露こぼれます秋の夕風
露こぼれます秋の夕風
- Roma-ji
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Yo to tomo ni tsurenaki hito o koigusa no tsuyu koboremasu aki no yūkaze
- English Translation
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For one forever
cold to me, my love-grass grows
heavy with its dew,
and spills it all the more
in the autumn evening wind
- Meaning
- The dew upon the grass of love I feel for one forever cold spills ever more freely in the autumn evening wind.
- Commentary
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Book Twelve Love Poems II 772
Headnote: "Composed on the topic 'The evening wind stirs love'"
Composed on the topic "The evening wind stirs love." The autumn evening wind, he says, makes the dew spill all the more from the grass of love for one always cold. Calling his love "love-grass" and laying tears upon the dew that settles there, he expresses the sorrow of a love whose tears spill more freely when the autumn evening wind blows.
The author, "Fujiwara no Akiie Ason," was the son of Fujiwara no Shigeie, Senior Assistant Governor-General of Dazaifu. He was active as a poet of the Rokujō Fujiwara house.
Poem 746 of this book sings of the evening sky of late autumn and this poem of the autumn evening wind, sharing the giving of love to the autumn dusk.
First line, "yo to tomo ni": "forever, always."
Second line, "tsurenaki hito o": "the one who is cold to me," leading into "koi" in the third line.
Third line, "koigusa no": "koigusa" likens growing love to grass; from the second line it runs on as "loving her" and turns into "love-grass."
Fourth line, "tsuyu koboremasu": "tsuyu" is the dew on the love-grass, a figure for tears, and "koboremasu" means "spilling all the more."
Fifth line, "aki no yūkaze": ending on a noun, it names the autumn evening wind that spills the dew, taking up the "evening wind" of the topic.
- Author
- Fujiwara no Akiie
- Source
- Senzai Wakashu
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