山の端を出づる宵よりしるきかな
今宵知らする秋の夜の月
今宵知らする秋の夜の月
- Roma-ji
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Yama no ha o izuru yoi yori shiruki kana koyoi shirasuru aki no yo no tsuki
- English Translation
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From the very dusk
when it rises from the hills,
how clear it is shown:
this the night, it tells us all,
the moon of the autumn night.
- Meaning
- From the very hour it rises over the mountain rim at dusk, it is plain to see: the autumn night's moon is telling us that tonight is the night.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 329
Headnote: "The fifteenth night of the eighth month"
The topic is the night of the fifteenth of the eighth month, the harvest moon, and poems on that night begin here. The autumn moon announcing that tonight is the fifteenth is plain to see from the moment it rises over the mountain rim at dusk. The special brightness of the famous moon is caught in the look of the moon just risen.
This is the first poem of the series on the fifteenth night, which begins with the moonrise. The following poems go on to the brightness of the full moon, its clearness, and the heart that grieves to part with it.
First line, “yama no ha o”: the mountain ridge over which the moon rises.
Second line, “izuru yoi yori”: from the dusk when it comes out, the time of moonrise.
Third line, “shiruki kana”: shirushi means plain, conspicuous, and kana is exclamatory; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “koyoi shirasuru”: telling us that tonight is the fifteenth.
Fifth line, “aki no yo no tsuki”: ending on a noun, the moon of the fifteenth night.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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Tare kinan tsuki no hikari ni sasowarete to omou ni yowa no akenu naru kana
- Next Poem
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Kazoenedo koyoi no tsuki no keshiki nite aki no nakaba o sora ni shiru kana