引く駒に影を並べて逢坂の
関路よりこそ月は出でけれ
関路よりこそ月は出でけれ
- Roma-ji
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Hiku koma ni kage o narabete Ōsaka no sekiji yori koso tsuki wa idekere
- English Translation
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With the horses led along,
side by side their forms aligned,
from Ōsaka's
barrier road it was indeed
that the moon came rising up
- Meaning
- Its light ranged alongside the horses being led to the capital, the moon rose up from the road of the Ōsaka Barrier.
- Commentary
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Book Three Autumn Poems 102
Headnote: "Composed on the theme of the fifteenth night of the eighth month at the residence of the former Chancellor and Regent"
The author is listed here as an unnumbered poet, but the Shikashu attributes the poem to Fujiwara no Asataka. It was composed on the theme of the fifteenth night of the eighth month at the residence of the former Chancellor and Regent, Fujiwara no Tadamichi.
Around the fifteenth of the eighth month, there was a ceremony of welcoming at the Ōsaka Barrier the horses presented from the provinces. The poem joins this rite with the full moon, as the moon rises from the direction of the barrier east of the capital, as if alongside the horses.
The first line, "hiku koma ni," means "with the horses being led," alluding to the ceremony of welcoming the horses.
The second line, "kage o narabete," means "ranging their forms side by side," the moonlight and the horses aligned.
The third line, "Ōsaka no," is the Ōsaka Barrier on the border of Yamashiro and Ōmi, the eastern gateway to the capital. Poem 123 in this book also sings of the horse welcoming at Ōsaka.
The fourth line, "sekiji yori koso," means "indeed from the barrier road," with koso resolved in the realis form idekere of the last line.
The last line, "tsuki wa idekere," exclaims "the moon rose," taking the realis form to complete the koso construction.
- Source
- Shika Wakashu
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