旅衣裾野の露にうら枯れて
ひもゆふ風に鹿ぞ鳴くなる
ひもゆふ風に鹿ぞ鳴くなる
- Roma-ji
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Tabigoromo susono no tsuyu ni uragarete himo yūkaze ni shika zo nakunaru
- English Translation
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My travelling robe—
in the dew of the foothill fields
the leaf tips wither,
and in the wind as day ties up its cords
I hear a deer crying.
- Meaning
- My travelling robe is wet with the dew of the foothill fields where the leaf tips are withering, and as the day draws to evening and the wind blows, I hear a deer crying.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 574
Headnote: "A deer on a journey"
On the road, the grass of the foothills is soaked with dew and withering at the tips, and as evening falls a deer cries in the wind. To the autumn wind on the foothills of the preceding poem, the poet adds the voice of the deer, deepening the sorrow of travel through sound.
The Ruijū text places it in its travel section. Kamo no Mabuchi questioned the word uragarete, suggesting urabirete, and remarked that the pun on robe and cord in himo yūkaze is a later taste for associated words, which sounds vulgar to one who knows the ancient spirit.
Line 1 means "travelling robe," calling up the related words suso and himo; it shares its first line with the preceding poem.
Line 2 is the same as line 4 of the preceding poem, suso echoing the hem.
Line 3 means "withering at the tips."
Line 4 means "in the wind of evening," himo meaning both "day too" and "cord," and yū both "evening" and "to tie."
Line 5 means "I hear the deer cry," naru expressing inference from sound and concluding zo.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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