秋たけて夜深き月の影見れば
荒れたる宿に衣打つなり
荒れたる宿に衣打つなり
- Roma-ji
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Aki takete yo fukaki tsuki no kage mireba aretaru yado ni koromo utsunari
- English Translation
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Autumn has grown late,
and as I watch the moonlight
of the deepest night,
from a house gone all to ruin
I can hear them beating cloth.
- Meaning
- Autumn has deepened, and as I gaze at the moonlight late at night, I hear someone beating cloth in a ruined house.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 287
Headnote: "Beating cloth before the moon"
As the poet gazes at the moonlight late on a night of deepened autumn, he hears the sound of cloth being beaten on a fulling block from a ruined house. Through moonlight and the sound of the fulling block, he portrays the loneliness of a late-autumn night to both eye and ear.
The Teika text differs in the last line. In the source text consulted, a character at the start of line 2 is missing and has been supplied from the Teika text's yo fukaki tsuki no.
Line 1 means "autumn has passed its height and deepened," the same word as line 3 of 282.
Line 2 means "of the late-night moon."
Line 3 means "as I watch its light."
Line 4 means "in a ruined house."
Line 5: nari infers from sound, knowing from the fulling block's sound that cloth is being beaten. Five poems from here through 291 sing of beating cloth, and 289 has the same last line.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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