なにとなく住ままほしくぞ思ほゆる
鹿あはれなる秋の山里
鹿あはれなる秋の山里
- Roma-ji
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Nani to naku sumamahoshiku zo omōyuru shika aware naru aki no yamazato
- English Translation
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For no reason known,
how I find I wish to live
in this place, I think:
where the deer so move the heart,
in this mountain home in autumn.
- Meaning
- For no particular reason, I find myself wishing to live here, in this mountain village in autumn where the deer cry so movingly.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 435
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Deer"
This is the seventh poem, closing the series on the deer. Looking at the mountain village in autumn, where the deer's call sinks so deep into the heart, the poet finds himself wishing for no particular reason to live there. The deer's call, sung in the poems before as something that draws out sorrow, is seen anew as a charm that makes one wish to live in the mountain village.
The closing aki no yamazato is the same as in 302 and 318, where the mountain village filled with deer's voices and moonlight, and the quiet dwelling waiting for the moon, have been sung again and again. Here that charm rises to the wish to live there.
First line, “nani to naku”: for no particular reason, somehow.
Second line, “sumamahoshiku zo”: mahoshi expresses desire, wishing to live; zo forms a kakari-musubi with omōyuru in the third line.
Third line, “omōyuru”: it comes to mind of itself, the attributive answering zo; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “shika aware naru”: where the deer's call moves the heart so deeply.
Fifth line, “aki no yamazato”: ending on a noun, the same last line as 302 and others.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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