鳴く鹿の声より袖に置くか露
もの思ふころの秋の夕暮
もの思ふころの秋の夕暮
- Roma-ji
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Naku shika no koe yori sode ni oku ka tsuyu mono omou koro no aki no yūgure
- English Translation
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From the crying stag's
voice, does it fall on my sleeve,
this dew I find here?
In the season when I brood,
the evening of the autumn.
- Meaning
- Did this dew fall on my sleeve from the voice of the crying stag? It is the autumn evening, the season when I brood.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 245
Headnote: "Deer at evening"
On an autumn evening, the poet wonders whether the dew that settled on his sleeve the moment he heard the stag's cry is not tears drawn out by that voice. In the evening of a season given to brooding, he overlays the stag's cry with tears, deeply portraying the loneliness of autumn.
Kamo no Mabuchi commented on line 3 that the expression oku ka tsuyu was a passing fashion of the time and grates on the ear.
Line 1, "the crying stag," takes up the preceding deer sequence and presents the "deer" of the topic.
Line 2: yori marks a source or cause, "from the voice, onto my sleeve."
Line 3: ka is interrogative, asking whether the dew has fallen, that is, whether it is tears, and the poem pauses here. Like "does it fall from my sleeves" in 191, it overlays sleeve-dew with tears.
Line 4 means "of the season when I brood."
Line 5 ends on a noun and presents the "evening" of the topic; it is the same last line as 213.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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