眺むれば袖にも露ぞこぼれける
外面の小田の秋の夕暮
外面の小田の秋の夕暮
- Roma-ji
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Nagamureba sode ni mo tsuyu zo koborekeru sotomo no oda no aki no yūgure
- English Translation
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As I gaze out there,
even on my sleeves the dew
has come spilling down:
in the field behind the house
in the autumn evening dusk.
- Meaning
- As I gaze out, lost in thought, dew has spilled even onto my sleeves, in the autumn dusk over the fields behind the house.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 464
Headnote: "Autumn evening at a farmhouse"
The topic is an autumn evening at a country house. As the poet gazes, lost in thought, at the autumn dusk over the fields spreading behind the house, dew has spilled even onto his sleeves. The tears that fall unbidden at the quiet loneliness of the evening fields are expressed as dew on the sleeves.
The second and third lines, sode ni mo tsuyu zo koborekeru, are the same as in 267, where the dew of a path through bush clover spills on the sleeves of one who passes without picking. Here that dew has become the tears of autumn dusk. The closing aki no yūgure is also the same as in the autumn dusk poems from 289.
First line, “nagamureba”: as I gaze, lost in thought.
Second line, “sode ni mo tsuyu zo”: mo implies on the sleeves as well as on the grass, and zo forms a kakari-musubi with keru in the third line; it is the same as the second line of 267.
Third line, “koborekeru”: the attributive answering zo, the realization that dew has spilled; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “sotomo no oda no”: sotomo is the back of the house and oda the paddy, with o as a prefix.
Fifth line, “aki no yūgure”: ending on a noun, the scene answering the topic's autumn evening.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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