Yaemugura shigereru yado no sabishiki ni hito koso miene aki wa kinikeri - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

八重葎茂れる宿の寂しきに
人こそ見えね秋は来にけり

Roma-ji: Yaemugura shigereru yado no sabishiki ni hito koso miene aki wa kinikeri
English Translation: In this lonely house
overgrown so thick and deep
with the creeping weeds,
not a single soul is seen,
yet autumn has come again.
Meaning: In this lonely house overgrown with layer upon layer of weeds, no visitor is to be seen, yet autumn alone has come.
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 140

Headnote: "When people composed poems at the Kawara Palace on the theme of autumn coming to a ruined house"
No one comes to visit this house, ruined and overgrown with weeds, yet autumn alone has arrived as always. The contrast between the loneliness of a house no one visits and the sure arrival of the season deeply conveys the desolation of autumn at the decaying mansion. According to the headnote, it was composed when people wrote on the theme of autumn coming to a ruined house at the Kawara Palace. The Kawara Palace had been a magnificent residence built by Minamoto no Tōru, but by this time it had fallen into ruin. The poem is also included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
The author, written as Egyō Hōshi, was a monk and poet of the mid-Heian period. He associated with the poets who gathered around the monk Anpō, who lived at the Kawara Palace, and he is counted among the Later Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "yaemugura," means weeds grown thick in many layers, sung of as a symbol of a ruined house.
Second line, "shigereru yado no," means "of the house overgrown," with "ru," the attributive of the continuative auxiliary "ri."
Third line, "sabishiki ni," means "in its loneliness."
Fourth line, "hito koso miene," means "though no one is seen," with the emphatic particle "koso" resolved by "ne," the realis form of the negative auxiliary "zu." The "koso ... ne" form carries a concessive sense into what follows.
Final line, "aki wa kinikeri," means "autumn has come after all," with "keri" expressing the exclamation of realization. It answers the first line of 138 in this book, "aki wa kinu," and closes the poem on the contrast that autumn alone comes to a house no one visits.
Author: Egyō
Source: Shui Wakashu
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