Akikaze ni ai to shi aeba hanasusuki izure to mo naku ho ni zo idekeru - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

秋風にあひとしあへば花すすき
いづれともなくほにぞ出でける

Roma-ji: Akikaze ni ai to shi aeba hanasusuki izure to mo naku ho ni zo idekeru
English Translation: Meeting with the wind,
each and every one that meets,
the plumed pampas grass—
not one can be told apart,
all have come out into plume
Meaning: Meeting the autumn wind, every stalk that meets it alike, the plumed pampas grass has come out into plume, all of it, with none to be told apart.
Commentary: Book Seven Autumn Poems III 352

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet says that the pampas grass meeting the autumn wind has put forth plumes, every stalk alike. In the sight of grass coming into plume all at once as if lured by the wind, it overlays a lover's heart that cannot help showing itself.
From 352 to 354, three poems on plumed pampas grass stand together.
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, "Akikaze ni," means "to the autumn wind." 355 and 360 of this book also open with "akikaze ni."
The second line, "ai to shi aeba," means "since all that meet it meet it," with "shi" an emphatic particle.
The third line, "hanasusuki," is pampas grass in plume; the next poem and 354 also open with "hanasusuki."
The fourth line, "izure to mo naku," means "with none told apart, all alike."
In the last line, "ho" is a pivot word meaning both the "plume" of the grass and "ho," to show outwardly. The particle "zo" and the attributive "keru" form a kakarimusubi pattern: "they have come out into plume."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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