夕されば衣手涼し高円の
尾上の宮の秋の初風
尾上の宮の秋の初風
- Roma-ji
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Yū sareba koromode suzushi takamado no onoe no miya no aki no hatsukaze
- English Translation
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When the evening comes,
how cool my sleeves have grown—
on Takamado
at the palace on the peak,
the first wind of the autumn.
- Meaning
- When evening falls, my sleeves feel cool—the first wind of autumn blowing round the palace on the heights of Takamado.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 182
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "The autumn wind"
As evening falls, the poet feels his sleeves grow cool in the first wind of autumn blowing round the palace on the heights of Mount Takamado. Naming Takamado, where Emperor Shōmu is said to have kept a detached palace, he portrays the arrival of autumn in a broad cadence that recalls the age of the Man'yōshū.
This poem was included in the Shinchokusen Wakashū, where line 1 reads yūgure wa. Kamo no Mabuchi gave it a double circle. The Ruijū text gives line 2 as koromode samushi, and because this variant appears alongside the text in the source consulted, line 2 has been taken as koromode suzushi in light of the note.
Line 1, yū sareba, means "when evening comes." Poems 195, 214, 223, and 236 open with the same words, a line repeated in the autumn section to call up an evening scene.
Line 2 pauses the poem. Against "how cold my sleeves" in the two preceding poems, this one says "cool," so the first wind of autumn is felt now as cold, now as cool.
Line 3 names Mount Takamado in Yamato.
Line 4, onoe no miya, is a palace on the mountain heights, thought to be Emperor Shōmu's detached palace on Takamado.
Line 5 closes the run of three poems sharing this last line from the head of the section.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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