Sato wa arete munashiki toko no atari made mi wa narawashi no akikaze zo fuku - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

里は荒れて空しき床のあたりまで
身はならはしの秋風ぞ吹く

Roma-ji: Sato wa arete munashiki toko no atari made mi wa narawashi no akikaze zo fuku
English Translation: The village lies waste,
and right up to my empty bed
and all around it,
the autumn wind I'm used to
now comes blowing through the night.
Meaning: The village has fallen to ruin, and even up to the bed where no one lies beside me the autumn wind blows, a wind my body has grown used to.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 1312

Headnote: "On the topic 'Love That Met and Then Met No More,' at a poetry contest at the Bureau of Poetry."
This is the first poem of the sequence of love poems from the contests at the Bureau of Poetry and at Minase. The village has fallen to ruin, the speaker says, and even around the empty bed blows the autumn wind the body has grown used to. According to the headnote, it was composed on the topic "Love That Met and Then Met No More" at a poetry contest held at the Bureau of Poetry.
The author, "Jakuren the Priest," had the lay name Fujiwara no Sadanaga; a nephew of Fujiwara no Shunzei, he was adopted as his son. He was appointed a compiler of the Shinkokinshū but died before its completion.
The Bureau of Poetry was an office for waka that Retired Emperor Go-Toba established at his palace in Kennin 1 (1201), and it was there that the Shinkokinshū was compiled.
The first line in the main text carries the note "arenu (nu = te)," and following that note it is read "arete." The reading line gives "arenu."

The first line, "sato wa arete," has six syllables, one more than the norm, and means "the village has fallen to ruin." Retired Emperor Go-Toba's poem, the next poem, begins in the same way with "sato wa arenu."
The second line, "munashiki toko no," means "of the empty bed where no one lies with me." It shows the emptiness after a love that met once.
The third line, "atari made," means "even up to the area around the bed."
In the fourth line, "mi wa narawashi no," "narawashi" means habit, familiarity: a body that has grown used to loneliness.
The last line, "akikaze zo fuku," closes in the attributive "fuku" in answer to "zo." Carrying on the wind of the preceding sequence, it shows the autumn wind blowing from the ruined village into the bedchamber, conveying a loneliness that pierces even when one is used to it.
Author: Jakuren
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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