Akikaze no samuki asake o Sanu no oka koyuramu kimi ni kinu kasamashi o

秋風の寒き朝明を佐農の岡
越ゆらむ君に衣貸さましを

Roma-ji: Akikaze no samuki asake o Sanu no oka koyuramu kimi ni kinu kasamashi o
English Translation: In the autumn wind
on this cold and early dawn,
over Sanu's hill
you must be crossing now—if only
I had lent you my robe to wear!
Meaning: On this dawn chilled by the autumn wind, you must be crossing the hill of Sanu—I wish I had lent you my robe.
Commentary: Book Three Miscellaneous Poems 361

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Six poems by Yamabe no Sukune Akahito"
This is the fifth of Yamabe no Akahito's six poems. Written from the standpoint of a woman thinking of a man who set out on a dawn cold with autumn wind, she regrets not lending him her robe as he crosses the hill of Sanu. Placing the feelings of the one who sends a traveler off within a sequence of travel poems brings out the cold of the road and the sorrow of parting. The hill of Sanu is of unknown location; one view places it at Sano in Kii.
Yamabe no Akahito's six poems center on travel along the shores of Harima and Settsu, interweaving longing for home and love.
The poet, Yamabe no Akahito, was a court poet of the reign of Shōmu who composed many poems on royal excursions and excelled in clear, limpid landscape verse. Later ages ranked him with Kakinomoto no Hitomaro as a "Saint of Poetry."

First line "In the autumn wind" means with the autumn wind blowing.
Second line "on this cold and early dawn": asake is daybreak.
Third line "over Sanu's hill" names a hill of unknown location.
Fourth line "you must be crossing now": ramu is present conjecture.
Fifth line "if only I had lent you my robe": mashi is counterfactual and o exclamatory, ending in regret.
Author: Yamabe no Akahito
Source: Manyoshu
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