雲のゐる梢はるかに霧こめて
たかしの山に鹿ぞ鳴くなる
たかしの山に鹿ぞ鳴くなる
- Roma-ji
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Kumo no iru kozue haruka ni kiri komete takashi no yama ni shika zo nakunaru
- English Translation
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Where the clouds are hung,
far off in the treetops high
mists have settled in—
on the lofty peak of Takashi
I can hear a stag cry out.
- Meaning
- Mist has closed in over the treetops far off where the clouds hang, and on lofty Mount Takashi I hear a stag cry.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 237
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Poems on deer"
Mist has closed in far over the high treetops where clouds hang, and the poet hears a stag crying on Mount Takashi. Through the cry resounding from deep within a high mountain wrapped in cloud and mist, he portrays the loneliness of autumn in the deep hills.
This poem was included in the Shinchokusen Wakashū. Kamo no Mabuchi gave it a double circle.
Line 1, "where the clouds hang," shows the height of the mountain.
Line 2 means "the treetops far away."
Line 3 means "mist has closed in." Following the mist on Mount Ogura in the two preceding poems, this one also sings of a stag in the mist.
Line 4: takashi is a pivot word meaning both Mount Takashi and "high."
Line 5 is the same last line as the preceding poem, 236, concluding the binding particle zo with the inferential naru.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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