いづかたに秋の行くらむわが宿に
今宵ばかりは雨宿りせで
今宵ばかりは雨宿りせで
- Roma-ji
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Izukata ni aki no yukuramu waga yado ni koyoi bakari wa amayadori sede
- English Translation
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Toward what quarter
is autumn on its way, I wonder?
Here at my dwelling,
not even for this one night
will it shelter from the rain
- Meaning
- Where is autumn going, I wonder? It will not even shelter from the rain at my house, not even for this one last night.
- Commentary
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Book Three Autumn Poems 139
Headnote: "Composed on the topic "the last day of the ninth month in the rain""
Fujiwara no Kintō composed this on the topic "the last day of the ninth month in the rain." The last day of the ninth lunar month was the final day of autumn.
On the last rainy night of autumn, he likens departing autumn to a traveler and grieves that it will not even take shelter from the rain at his house for this one night, but goes on somewhere. Placed at the end of the book, it answers the arrival of autumn in the opening poem, 82, closing the autumn book with autumn's farewell.
The first line, "izukata ni," asks "toward which direction," answered by ramu in the second line.
The second line, "aki no yukuramu," conjectures "where is autumn going?" personifying autumn. The poem pauses here.
The third line, "waga yado ni," means "at my dwelling."
The fourth line, "koyoi bakari wa," means "for this night at least," the last night of autumn.
The last line, "amayadori sede," means "without sheltering from the rain," de being a negative conjunctive particle. Using the rain of the headnote to cast autumn as a traveler, it closes the book with autumn's departure, against its arrival in the opening poem, 82.
- Author
- Fujiwara no Kintō
- Source
- Shika Wakashu
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