佐保山のははその紅葉千々の色に
移ろふ秋は時雨降りけり
移ろふ秋は時雨降りけり
- Roma-ji
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Sahoyama no hahaso no momiji chiji no iro ni utsurou aki wa shigure furikeri
- English Translation
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On Mount Saho
the oak leaves turning crimson
in a thousand hues—
in the autumn when they change
showers have been falling down.
- Meaning
- In the autumn when the oak leaves of Mount Saho turn a thousand colors, the showers have been falling.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 295
Headnote: "Composed when I had people compose on the theme 'The oak leaves of Mount Saho dyed by showers'"
This poem was composed by the poet when he had others compose on the theme "The oak leaves of Mount Saho dyed by showers." Realizing that in the autumn when the oak leaves of Mount Saho turn a thousand colors, the showers that dye them have been falling, he sings of the bond between autumn leaves and showers.
The Ruijū text's headnote differs slightly. The idea that autumn showers dye the leaves has long been sung in waka. In the source text consulted, a character in line 2 is missing, and no has been supplied from the syllable count, reading hahaso no momiji.
Line 1 names Mount Saho in Yamato, sung as a famous place for the colored leaves of oaks.
Line 2 refers to the turned leaves of hahaso, oaks such as the konara.
Line 3, "in a thousand hues," is hypermetric.
Line 4 means "the autumn when they change." Following the "turning" of the chrysanthemums in the preceding poem, 294, this poem sings of the turning of autumn leaves, and poems on autumn leaves follow from here.
Line 5: keri expresses realization, ending "so the showers that dye the leaves have been falling."
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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