物思はぬ野辺の草木の葉にだにも
秋の夕べは露ぞ置きける
秋の夕べは露ぞ置きける
- Roma-ji
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Mono omowanu nobe no kusaki no ha ni dani mo aki no yūbe wa tsuyu zo okikeru
- English Translation
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Even on the leaves
of grasses and trees in the fields
that know no longing,
on an autumn evening
the dew has come to settle.
- Meaning
- Even on the leaves of the grasses and trees in the fields, which know no longing, dew has settled on this autumn evening.
- Commentary
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Love Poems 423
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Among poems on love"
If dew settles on autumn evenings even on the leaves of grasses and trees that know no longing, then surely the sleeves of one who suffers in love must be wet with tears; the poem implies the tears without stating them. The loneliness of autumn dusk is joined to the sorrow of love.
Line 1 means "which know no longing," presenting grasses and trees as heartless things.
Line 2 means "of the grasses and trees of the fields," continuing the autumn fields of the two preceding poems.
Line 3: dani names a lesser case to imply a greater, "even on the leaves."
Line 4 means "on an autumn evening," a melancholy hour.
Line 5: zo binds the attributive keru, the exclamatory keri noticing the dew, which silently implies the dew of tears.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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