月見れば衣手寒し更級や
姥捨山の峰の秋風
姥捨山の峰の秋風
- Roma-ji
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Tsuki mireba koromode samushi sarashina ya obasuteyama no mine no akikaze
- English Translation
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As I watch the moon,
how cold my sleeves have grown—
Sarashina, ah!
from Obasute Mountain's
peaks the wind of autumn blows.
- Meaning
- As I gaze at the moon my sleeves grow cold—the autumn wind from the peaks of Mount Obasute in Sarashina.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 284
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "The autumn moon at famous places"
Gazing at the moon from Mount Obasute in Sarashina in Shinano, the poet feels his sleeves grow cold in the autumn wind from the peaks. In concise words, he vividly portrays the clear moonlight and cold mountain wind of a famous moon-viewing site.
This poem was included in the Shokusenzai Wakashū. Kamo no Mabuchi gave it a double circle. Mount Obasute has been famed as a place for the moon ever since the anonymous Kokin Wakashū poem in which the poet cannot console his heart, gazing at the moon shining on Obasute in Sarashina.
Line 1 means "as I gaze at the moon."
Line 2 means "my sleeves are cold," and the poem pauses here. It is the same line as in 180 and 181; the chill felt in the first wind of autumn at the start of the section is felt here on a moonlit night of deepened autumn.
Line 3: ya is an exclamatory particle, naming the place in Shinano.
Line 4 names the mountain in Sarashina famed for the moon.
Line 5 ends on a noun, the same last line as 268. The next poem, 285, also sings of the moon of Obasute in Sarashina, so the two stand together at the same famous place.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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Yama samumi koromode usushi sarashina ya obasute no tsuki ni aki fukeshikaba