冬枯れのすさまじげなる山里に
月のすむこそあはれなりけれ
月のすむこそあはれなりけれ
- Roma-ji
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Fuyugare no susamajige naru yamazato ni tsuki no sumu koso aware narikere
- English Translation
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In the winter's blight,
in a village of the hills
so bleak and so bare,
that the moon shines clear and dwells
is what moves the heart the most.
- Meaning
- In a mountain village withered by winter, so bleak and bare, it is the moon dwelling there in its clear light that moves the heart most deeply.
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 517
Headnote: "The winter moon at a mountain dwelling"
The topic is the winter moon at a mountain dwelling. In a mountain village where the plants have withered in winter and nothing of charm remains, it is the moon alone, shining with clear light, that moves the heart. The charmless winter village is set against the moon shining clear above it.
The next poem is the second on the same topic. Poem 519 in this book also ends with aware narikeri, finding the moon over a withered moor deeply moving.
First line, “fuyugare no”: fuyugare is the withering of plants in winter.
Second line, “susamajige naru”: susamajige nari describes something cold, bleak and without charm.
Third line, “yamazato ni”: in the mountain village, answering the dwelling of the topic.
Fourth line, “tsuki no sumu koso”: sumu is a pivot word, for the moon's light to be clear and for the moon to dwell in the village. Koso is an emphatic particle that binds with the perfective kere in the last line.
Fifth line, “aware narikere”: aware nari is to be deeply moved, closing in the perfective kere required by koso.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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