秋を経て忍びもかねに物ぞ思ふ
小野の山辺の夕暮の空
小野の山辺の夕暮の空
- Roma-ji
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Aki o hete shinobi mo kane ni mono zo omou ono no yamabe no yūgure no sora
- English Translation
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Through autumns passing,
no longer can I hold it back—
how I brood and grieve
at the hills beside the moor,
in the sky of evening twilight.
- Meaning
- Through autumn after autumn, I can no longer hold it in and am lost in brooding, gazing at the evening sky over the hills beside the moor.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 260
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On the theme 'Gazing out from the mountainside'"
After passing through autumn after autumn, the poet can no longer restrain himself and is lost in brooding. Gazing at the evening sky over the hills beside the moor, he portrays the brooding of autumns accumulated year upon year spilling over.
The Ruijū text differs in lines 2 and 3.
Line 1, "through autumns passing," shows the years piled up.
Line 2 means "unable even to hold it in."
Line 3 concludes the binding particle zo with the attributive omou and is hypermetric; the poem pauses here. Like "it is I who brood" in 258, it expresses intense brooding.
Line 4 names the moor and the edge of the hills, continuing the "mountainside" of the theme from the two preceding poems.
Line 5 ends on a noun, giving last the evening sky that stirs brooding. Taking up "the evening sky" of the preceding poem, 259, the three poems on gazing from the mountainside close with the evening sky.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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