都にて眺めし月のもろともに
旅の空にも出でにけるかな
旅の空にも出でにけるかな
- Roma-ji
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Miyako nite nagameshi tsuki no morotomo ni tabi no sora ni mo idenikeru kana
- English Translation
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The moon that I gazed
upon in the capital
has come along with me —
here in the traveler's sky
it has risen out as well
- Meaning
- The moon I used to gaze at in the capital has come out with me, here in the sky of my journey too.
- Commentary
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Book Ten Miscellaneous Poems II 387
The moon he used to gaze at in the capital, the poet says, has come out with him in the sky of his journey too. Feeling the moon seen on the road to be a companion who came along from the capital, he finds comfort amid the loneliness of travel.
The next poem, 388, also begins "miyako nite nagameshi tsuki" and answers that seeing that moon, it does not feel like a journey's sky. From the same opening lines the two poems express different feelings and form a pair.
The first line, "miyako nite," means while in the capital.
The second line, "nagameshi tsuki no," uses the attributive past "shi" for the moon gazed at in the capital, almost the same as the second line of the next poem.
The third line, "morotomo ni," means together.
The fourth line, "tabi no sora ni mo," uses "mo": in the sky of the journey too.
The final line, "idenikeru kana," combines the perfective "nu," attributive exclamatory "keri," and "kana": it has come out.
- Author
- Dōmyō
- Source
- Shika Wakashu
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