Kari nakite samuki asake no tsuyujimo ni yano no kamiyama irozukinikeri

雁鳴きて寒き朝明の露霜に
矢野の神山色づきにけり

Roma-ji: Kari nakite samuki asake no tsuyujimo ni yano no kamiyama irozukinikeri
English Translation: Wild geese cry aloud,
and with the frosty dew
of the chill of dawn
Yano's sacred mountain
has taken on its hue.
Meaning: The wild geese cry, and with the frosty dew of a cold dawn the sacred mountain of Yano has taken on autumn color.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 302

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed at the end of autumn"
The geese cry, and with the frosty dew of a cold dawn the sacred mountain of Yano has taken on its color. Setting down the Man'yō place name of Yano's sacred mountain plainly, without contrivance, the poet powerfully portrays the coloring of the mountain in late autumn.
This poem was included in the Shinchokusen Wakashū. Kamo no Mabuchi gave it a double circle and commented that, drawing on the spirit and words of Man'yōshū poems such as one in which the sacred mountain of Yano begins to glow with color in the frosty dew, the poet brings out the name of Yano's sacred mountain as if effortlessly, which shows his caliber; that to think only of small things like associated words when singing of famous places is immature; that the ancients, facing a place, simply spoke its name; and that this poem's direct naming of the mountain is manly and bold.

Line 1 is the same opening as the preceding poem, 301.
Line 2 means "of a cold dawn."
Line 3, "in the frosty dew," refers to dew frozen almost to frost, a word also sung in 240 and 256.
Line 4, Yano no kamiyama, is a poetic place sung in the Man'yōshū, whose location is disputed.
Line 5 is the same last line as the preceding poem, closing the four poems ending "has taken on color" that began with 298.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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