Yo no naka ni aki hatenureba miyako ni mo ima wa arashi no oto nomi zo suru - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

世の中にあきはてぬれば都にも
今は嵐の音のみぞする

Roma-ji: Yo no naka ni aki hatenureba miyako ni mo ima wa arashi no oto nomi zo suru
English Translation: Since the world has come
to the end of autumn and is
weary of me, now
in the capital as well
there is only the storm's sound.
Meaning: Now that autumn has ended in the world and people have tired of me, even in the capital there is only the sound of the storm.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 1574

Headnote: "Reply."
This is the fifteenth poem of the sequence expressing personal feelings through the things of autumn, Fujiwara no Akinaga's reply to Fujiwara no Sanesada's poem in the preceding poem. Since autumn has ended and the world has tired of him, he says, even in the capital there is nothing but the sound of the storm, answering that the capital too is lonely.
The author, "Former Middle Counselor Akinaga," was the son of Fujiwara no Akitaka. He rose to Provisional Middle Counselor.

The first line, "yo no naka ni," refers to the world as a whole.
In the second line, "aki hatenureba," "aki" plays on "aki," autumn, and "aki," weariness. It overlays the end of autumn with being tired of and abandoned by the world.
The third line, "miyako ni mo," means "in the capital, too." It takes up "miyako mo kaku ya" of the preceding poem.
The fourth line, "ima wa arashi no," takes up "arashi" of the preceding poem. The storm blows not only in the mountain village but in the capital too.
The last line, "oto nomi zo suru," closes the kakari-musubi of the particle "zo" with the attributive form "suru." With no visitors and only the sound of the storm, he answers Sanesada's question that the capital too is lonely.
Author: Fujiwara no Akinaga
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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