更けにけり外山の嵐冴え冴えて
十市の里にすめる月影
十市の里にすめる月影
- Roma-ji
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Fukenikeri toyama no arashi saesaete tōchi no sato ni sumeru tsukikage
- English Translation
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The night has grown late;
from the near hills the storm wind
blows keen and cold,
and over the village of Tōchi
the moonlight dwells so clear.
- Meaning
- The night has grown late. The storm wind from the near hills blows bitterly cold, and over the village of Tōchi the moonlight shines clear.
- Commentary
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Winter Poems 346
Headnote: "Storm wind before the moon"
This poem was composed on the theme of a storm wind before the moon. The night has grown late, the wind from the near hills blows cold and keen, and the moonlight shines clear over the village of Tōchi. The poet portrays a moon shining clear in a sky swept clean by the storm.
The poem shares the words of its first and fourth lines with the Shin Kokin Wakashū poem by Princess Shikishi on the late night at Tōchi village, and likewise sings the village of Tōchi deep in the night.
Line 1: the exclamatory keri expresses the realization that the night has grown late, and the poem pauses here.
Line 2 is the fierce wind blowing from the hills near the village.
Line 3 is the same as line 3 of the preceding poem, "blowing cold and keen."
Line 4 names the village of Tōchi, a poetic place in Yamato.
Line 5: sumeru is a pivot word meaning both the moon "shining clear" and "dwelling" in the village, and the poem ends on a noun.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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