捨てていにし憂き世に月の澄まであれな
さらば心のとまらざらまし
さらば心のとまらざらまし
- Roma-ji
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Sutete inishi ukiyo ni tsuki no sumade are na saraba kokoro no tomarazaramashi
- English Translation
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In the bitter world
I have left behind, I wish
the moon would not shine clear;
were it so, I think my heart
would not linger in it here.
- Meaning
- If only the moon would not shine so clear in the sorrowful world I have abandoned; then my heart would not be held back in it.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 405
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing my feelings through the moon"
This is the fifth poem in the series expressing thoughts through the moon. If only the moon would not shine so beautifully in the sorrowful world the poet has left behind; then his heart would not be held back in this world. Though he has taken vows, he cannot cut off his attachment to the world because of the moon's beauty.
The heart that rejoiced in 403 at having lived on to see the moon appears here, conversely, as a heart troubled that the moon keeps it bound to the world. The struggle between love for the moon and the heart of one who has renounced the world is laid bare.
First line, “sutete inishi”: a hypermetric line of six syllables, which I abandoned and left; inishi joins inu, to go away, with the attributive of the past auxiliary ki.
Second line, “ukiyo ni tsuki no”: in the sorrowful world, the moon.
Third line, “sumade are na”: a hypermetric line of six syllables, I wish it would not shine clear; na is a particle of wishing. The poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “saraba kokoro no”: if it were so, my heart.
Fifth line, “tomarazaramashi”: mashi expresses supposition contrary to fact, my heart would not be held in this world.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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