夕されば野路の刈萱うちなびき
乱れてのみぞ露も置きける
乱れてのみぞ露も置きける
- Roma-ji
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Yū sareba noji no karukaya uchinabiki midarete nomi zo tsuyu mo okikeru
- English Translation
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When the evening comes,
on the moorland path the stems
of karukaya bend,
and in nothing but disorder
even the dewdrops are laid.
- Meaning
- When evening comes, the karukaya grass along the field path bends in the wind, and even the dew lies scattered in disarray.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 214
Headnote: "Karukaya grass in the fields"
At evening, the karukaya grass along the field path bends and tangles in the wind, and even the dew settles on it in disarray. The swaying autumn grass and scattered dew carry both the loneliness of the fields at dusk and a heart quietly in turmoil.
This poem was included in the Shingosen Wakashū. The Ruijū text gives the headnote as "Composed on the karukaya of the fields." Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle.
Line 1 shares its opening with 182 and 195, calling up an evening scene.
Line 2 names the karukaya growing along the field path.
Line 3: uchi is a prefix, describing the grass bending in the wind.
Line 4 means "only in disarray," and the binding particle zo carries on to line 5. Karukaya is often sung as something that tangles.
Line 5 is the attributive concluding zo, and mo adds "not only the grass but even the dew." Following the pampas grass of the preceding poem, 213, this poem sings of karukaya, setting the grasses of the autumn fields side by side.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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