Ikahokaze fuku hi fukanu hi ari to iedo a ga koi nomi shi toki nakarikeri

伊香保風吹く日吹かぬ日ありと言へど
我が恋のみし時なかりけり

Roma-ji: Ikahokaze fuku hi fukanu hi ari to iedo a ga koi nomi shi toki nakarikeri
English Translation: The Ikaho wind—
there are days it blows, days it does not,
so the people say,
but this love of mine alone
knows no season when it stops.
Meaning: They say the Ikaho wind blows some days and not others—but my love alone never has a time when it rests.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Azuma Poems 3422

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Sōmon (Love Exchanges)"
The Ikaho wind blows on some days and not on others, but the singer's love alone goes on without pause. The contrast between a fickle mountain wind and an unceasing love is vivid.
It is one of the Kōzuke poems. The wind sweeping down from the Ikaho mountains was well known, a familiar part of nature for the people there.
The poet is unknown. The Azuma uta are thought to have been sung among the people of the eastern provinces, and they are marked by plain, open-hearted expression mixed with local dialect.

First line, "ikahokaze": The wind blowing down from Ikaho, as the Ikaho poems continue.
Second line, "fuku hi fukanu hi": Days it blows and days it does not, a line of paired opposites.
Third line, "ari to iedo": A hypermetric line, with "do" concessive.
Fourth line, "a ga koi nomi shi": "Shi" intensifies: my love alone, set against the wind.
Final line, "toki nakarikeri": "Keri" is exclamatory: there is no time it stops. The idea matches "toki naki mono o" in 3379 from Musashi.
Source: Manyoshu
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