我がものと秋の梢を思ふかな
小倉の里に家居せしより
小倉の里に家居せしより
- Roma-ji
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Waga mono to aki no kozue o omou kana Ogura no sato ni iei seshi yori
- English Translation
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As if all my own,
so I think of autumn's
treetops colored bright,
ever since I made my home
in the village of Ogura.
- Meaning
- Ever since I made my home in the village of Ogura, I have come to think of the bright autumn treetops as if they were my own.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 486
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed while in retreat at Hōrin Temple at the end of autumn"
This is another poem composed in retreat at Hōrin Temple. Ever since he made his home in the village of Ogura, the poet has come to think of the autumn leaves on the treetops of Mount Ogura as his own. As one living in a place famed for autumn leaves, he expresses a fondness that claims them all for himself.
Like waga mono ni miru in 271, where the bush clover's full bloom is seen as the poet's own, it sings of a heart that loves nearby nature as its own. It also echoes 436, where the poet lives at the foot of Mount Ogura and hears the deer, so his dwelling in the village of Ogura is sung again.
First line, “waga mono to”: as my own.
Second line, “aki no kozue o”: the treetops of autumn in their colors.
Third line, “omou kana”: kana is exclamatory, how I think so; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “Ogura no sato ni”: in the village at the foot of Mount Ogura in Saga, west of the capital.
Fifth line, “iei seshi yori”: iei is setting up a home, and shi the attributive of the past auxiliary ki, ever since I made my home, giving afterward by inversion the reason for the third line.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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