たそがれに物思ひをればわが宿の
萩の葉そよぎ秋風ぞ吹く
萩の葉そよぎ秋風ぞ吹く
- Roma-ji
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Tasogare ni monoomoi oreba waga yado no hagi no ha soyogi akikaze zo fuku
- English Translation
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In the twilight hour
as I sit and brood alone,
here beside my house
the bush clover leaves are rustling,
and the autumn wind blows by.
- Meaning
- As I sit lost in thought at twilight, the leaves of the bush clover by my house rustle, and the autumn wind blows.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 212
Headnote: "Composed on the spirit of evening"
As the poet sits brooding at dusk, the leaves of the bush clover by his house rustle and the autumn wind blows. He captures the autumn wind that seems to keep company with a brooding heart through the sound of the clover leaves.
This poem was included in the Gyokuyō Wakashū. The Ruijū and Teika texts and the Gyokuyōshū read ogi, "reed," for hagi in line 4. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle.
Line 1, "at twilight," presents the "evening" of the headnote.
Line 2, "as I sit and brood," is hypermetric.
Line 3, "of my house," like 207 sings of the clover of the poet's own house.
Line 4, "the bush clover leaves rustle": following the lower leaves pressed by wind in the preceding poem, 211, this poem sings of leaves stirring in the evening wind.
Line 5 concludes the binding particle zo with the attributive fuku; it is the same last line as 194.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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