Aki no yo ni ame to kikoete furitsuru wa kaze ni midaruru momiji narikeri - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

秋の夜に雨と聞こえて降りつるは
風に乱るる紅葉なりけり

Roma-ji: Aki no yo ni ame to kikoete furitsuru wa kaze ni midaruru momiji narikeri
English Translation: On the autumn night
what I heard as rain falling,
pattering down,
was the colored leaves, I find,
tossed and tangled by the wind
Meaning: What I heard falling as rain in the autumn night was, I find, the autumn leaves tossed by the wind.
Commentary: Book Seven Autumn Poems III 407

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet says that what was heard as rain falling in the autumn night was in fact the sound of leaves tossed down by the wind. It captures the falling of leaves invisible at night through mistaking them for the sound of rain.
Taking up the leaves scattered by the wind in the preceding poem, it sings of leaves falling at night, heard by ear.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Aki no yo ni," means "on an autumn night."
The second line, "ame to kikoete," means "heard as rain."
The third line, "furitsuru wa," means "what was falling," with "tsuru" the attributive form of the completive auxiliary "tsu."
The fourth line, "kaze ni midaruru," means "tossed by the wind," the same words as the fourth line of 402 of this book.
In the last line, "keri" expresses realization: "it was autumn leaves, I find."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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