なにとなくものがなしくぞ見え渡る
鳥羽田の面の秋の夕暮
鳥羽田の面の秋の夕暮
- Roma-ji
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Nani to naku monoganashiku zo miewataru Tobata no omo no aki no yūgure
- English Translation
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For no reason known,
everything appears so sad
as far as I see:
over the fields of Toba
in the autumn evening dusk.
- Meaning
- For no reason I can tell, everything looks sad as far as the eye can see across the rice fields of Toba in the autumn dusk.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 292
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Among autumn poems"
This is another poem composed on autumn. The autumn dusk spreading over the rice fields of Toba, south of the capital, looks sad as far as the eye can see, for no reason the poet can name. The causeless sadness is entrusted to the wide view of the fields.
The four poems from 289 all dwell on the sadness of autumn evening, and they close with this poem, which reaches a scene with a named place. Like suzuro ni mono no kanashikaruran in 290, it expresses a sadness without cause, here with nani to naku.
First line, “nani to naku”: without any particular reason, the same feeling as suzuro ni in 290.
Second line, “monoganashiku zo”: somehow sad, with zo forming a kakari-musubi with miewataru in the third line.
Third line, “miewataru”: the attributive answering zo, seen all across; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “Tobata no omo no”: Tobata is the rice fields around Toba, south of the capital, and omo is their surface, their wide expanse.
Fifth line, “aki no yūgure”: ending on a noun, closing the series with the same line as 289 and 291.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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