Ominaeshi hana no sakari ni akikaze no fuku yūgure o tare ni kataran - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

女郎花花の盛りに秋風の
吹く夕暮れを誰に語らん

Roma-ji: Ominaeshi hana no sakari ni akikaze no fuku yūgure o tare ni kataran
English Translation: O maiden flowers,
in the fullness of your bloom,
the autumn wind
blows in the evening dusk—
to whom shall I speak of this
Meaning: The maiden flowers are in full bloom, and the autumn wind blows in the evening dusk—to whom shall I tell of this?
Commentary: Book Six Autumn Poems II 341

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet wonders to whom to speak of the loneliness of an evening when the autumn wind blows while the maiden flowers are in full bloom. Pairing the beauty of the flowers at their height with the piercing evening wind of autumn, it conveys the loneliness of having no one to share one's heart with.
From 339 to 341, three anonymous poems on the maiden flower stand together. This poem is the third.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us. The text gives the poet as "yomibito mo," which is treated here as "anonymous."

The first line, "Ominaeshi," means "of the maiden flowers."
The second line, "hana no sakari ni," means "at the height of their bloom," and 347 of this book also sings of the maiden flower's height in "niou sakari."
The third line, "akikaze no," means "the autumn wind."
The fourth line, "fuku yūgure o," means "the evening when it blows," pointing to the hour when autumn's loneliness is deepest.
In the last line, "n" is the conjectural auxiliary "mu": "to whom shall I tell it?"
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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