A study on 「UTSUROU」 -Focused on Manyosyu- The movement and transformation verb, 「うつろふ」 has various meanings, including ‘to move,’ ‘to be tinged,’ ‘to be transformed,’ ‘to be declined,’ ‘to fall,’ etc. In Manyosyu, this 「うつろふ」 is recited with distinctive meanings, such as the spatial movement, the change in color and the extinction, having the common feature that they are based upon ‘the lapse of time.’ 「うつろふ」 as the spatial movement has the externally located subordinate role so that it can convey the lapse of time rather than only the spatial movement. 「うつろふ」 as the change in color focuses on the continuous process of the change in color, concentrating mainly on the change of heart, one of the psychological changes of human beings. Even if 「うつろふ」 as the extinction focuses on the result of the extinction rather than the process of it, metaphorically reciting the decrepitude and death of human, and the vanity of human life through the voice of the natural phenomenon, the withering of the natural objects, it can be notified that there is always the underlying meaning, the lapse of time. As this kind of reciting manner is not maintained in Kokinsyu, it can be assumed that this multi-layered reciting manner is Manyosyu’s general and idiosyncratic one.