荻の葉に露吹き結ぶ木枯らしの
音ぞ夜寒になりまさるなる
音ぞ夜寒になりまさるなる
- Roma-ji
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Ogi no ha ni tsuyu fukimusubu kogarashi no oto zo yosamu ni narimasaru naru
- English Translation
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On the reed leaves
binding dewdrops as it blows,
the withering wind's
sound with the cold of night
grows ever stronger, it seems
- Meaning
- The sound of the withering wind, which blows the dew into beads on the reed leaves, seems to grow ever stronger as the night grows cold.
- Commentary
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Book Three Autumn Poems 111
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The author is listed here as an unnumbered poet, but the Shikashu attributes the poem to Fujiwara no Akitsuna.
The sound of the cold wind binding the dew on the reed leaves grows stronger as the night chill deepens. The poet senses late autumn's growing cold by sound, closing the sequence on reeds and autumn wind with a withering wind that hints at approaching winter.
The first line, "ogi no ha ni," is the same opening as 108 in this book, and this is the last poem of the reed sequence.
The second line, "tsuyu fukimusubu," means "blowing the dew into beads," the dew congealing in the cold.
The third line, "kogarashi no," is the strong wind of late autumn into winter, and the book's autumn wind poems arrive at this withering wind.
The fourth line, "oto zo yosamu ni," means "the sound, with the cold of night," with zo resolved by the attributive naru in the last line.
The last line, "narimasaru naru," means "seems to grow ever stronger," naru being the attributive form of the auxiliary of inference from sound.
- Source
- Shika Wakashu
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