今朝来鳴く雁がねの寒み唐衣
たつたの山は紅葉しにけり
たつたの山は紅葉しにけり
- Roma-ji
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Kesa kinaku karigane no samumi karagoromo tatsuta no yama wa momiji shinikeri
- English Translation
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This morning they come,
and the wild geese cry so cold—
Chinese robes are cut,
so on Tatsuta Mountain
all the leaves have turned to red.
- Meaning
- The geese that came crying this morning sound so cold that Mount Tatsuta has turned to autumn red.
- Commentary
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Autumn Poems 300
Headnote: "On hearing the geese cry"
The geese that came crying this morning sound cold, and in that chill Mount Tatsuta has turned to full autumn color. Through the conceit that the cold of the geese's voices dyes the mountain, the poet portrays the deepening of autumn.
The Ruijū text gives the headnote as "Composed on hearing the geese cry," and the Ruijū and Teika texts give the last line as momiji shinuramu. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle. Like the preceding poem, it draws on the Man'yōshū poem in which Mount Tatsuta begins to color as the geese come crying. In the source text consulted, a character in line 1 is missing and has been supplied from the Teika text's kesa kinaku.
Line 1 means "coming and crying this morning."
Line 2, "since the geese's cry is cold," is hypermetric, with mi on an adjective stem giving the reason.
Line 3, karagoromo, is a pillow word for Tatsuta, leading through the sense of "cutting" (tatsu) cloth to the sound tatsu.
Line 4: tatsu is a pivot word meaning both cutting the Chinese robe and the place name Tatsuta. It sings of the same Mount Tatsuta as the preceding poem, 299.
Line 5 is the same last line as 297, with keri expressing realization. In the preceding poem geese and storm color Mount Tatsuta, here the cold of the geese's voices, so the two poems sing variations on the same mountain and conceit.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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