秋の野の花の千草に物思ふ
露よりもしげき色は見えねど
露よりもしげき色は見えねど
- Roma-ji
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Aki no no no hana no chigusa ni mono omou tsuyu yori mo shigeki iro wa mienedo
- English Translation
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Among the thousand flowers
of the autumn fields
I sit in longing thought—
more thick than dew my longing,
though its color is not seen.
- Meaning
- Among the countless flowers of the autumn fields I am lost in longing; my longing is thicker than the dew upon them, though its color does not show.
- Commentary
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Love Poems 422
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Among poems on love"
Before the many-colored flowers of the autumn fields, the poet broods; his longings outnumber the dew on the flowers, yet their color does not appear outwardly. The colors of flowers and the color of feeling, the abundance of dew and the abundance of longing, are set against each other.
According to the notes in the base text, the Ruijū and Teika texts read line 4 as tsuyu yori shigeki. Here the base text is followed, and line 4 has an extra syllable.
Line 1 means "of the autumn fields," almost the same as line 1 of the preceding poem, continuing the autumn field poems.
Line 2 means "among the many kinds of flowers."
Line 3 means "I brood in love," and the poem pauses here.
Line 4 means "more numerous than the dew," with an extra syllable; it uses the same words "than the dew" and shigeki as 409.
Line 5 means "though its color is not seen," do being adversative. The many-colored flowers are paired with a longing that shows no color.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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