秋の夜の月待ちかねて思ひやる
心いくたび山を越ゆらむ
心いくたび山を越ゆらむ
- Roma-ji
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Aki no yo no tsuki machikanete omoiyaru kokoro ikutabi yama o koyuramu
- English Translation
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On an autumn night
unable to wait for the moon,
longing toward it,
how many times has my heart
gone over the mountain?
- Meaning
- Unable to wait for the autumn moon to rise, how many times has my yearning heart gone over the mountain to meet it?
- Commentary
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Book Three Autumn Poems 104
Headnote: "Composed on the feeling of waiting for the moon"
Ōe no Yoshitoki composed this on the topic of waiting for the moon.
Unable to wait for the moon to rise from beyond the mountain, his heart alone crosses the mountain again and again to meet it. The impatience of waiting is shown through the bold image of the heart crossing the mountain. It depicts more concretely the feeling of "waiting for it to rise" sung in 101.
The first line, "aki no yo no," again introduces the autumn moon, like the preceding poem.
The second line, "tsuki machikanete," means "unable to wait for the moon to rise."
The third line, "omoiyaru," means to send one's thoughts to something far away, and modifies kokoro in the fourth line.
The fourth line, "kokoro ikutabi," means "how many times the heart," the heart going on ahead alone.
The last line, "yama o koyuramu," conjectures "has it crossed the mountain?" closing with the hyperbole of a heart crossing mountains.
- Author
- Ōe no Yoshitoki
- Source
- Shika Wakashu
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