Momiji mi ni yadoreru ware to shiraneba ya saho no kawagiri tachikakusuran - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

紅葉見に宿れる我と知らねばや
佐保の川霧立ち隠すらん

Roma-ji: Momiji mi ni yadoreru ware to shiraneba ya saho no kawagiri tachikakusuran
English Translation: Not knowing that I
am lodging here to see
the leaves of autumn,
is that why the Saho mists
rise and hide them from my eyes?
Meaning: Is it because they do not know I have stayed here to see the autumn leaves that the river mists of Saho rise and hide them?
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 193

Headnote: "On the way to worship at Hatsuse, when I stopped for the night at the foot of Mount Saho and in the morning mist had risen everywhere"
The poet complains that the river mists of Saho have risen and hidden the autumn leaves, perhaps because they do not know he stopped here expressly to see them. The mist is personified as something that does not understand the traveler's wish. According to the headnote, it was composed on the morning after he stayed at the foot of Mount Saho on the way to worship at Hase Temple in Hatsuse, when mist had risen everywhere.
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, "momiji mi ni," means "to see the autumn leaves."
Second line, "yadoreru ware to," means "that I am lodging here," with "ru," the attributive of the continuative auxiliary "ri."
Third line, "shiraneba ya," means "is it because they do not know," with the questioning particle "ya," which is resolved by "ran" in the final line.
Fourth line, "saho no kawagiri," is the same phrase as in 186 of this book. Whereas in 186 the rising river mist colored the leaves, here it hides them, reversing the role of the mist.
Final line, "tachikakusuran," means "why do they rise and hide them," with "ran," the attributive of the auxiliary of conjecture about cause. The same "tachikakusuran" ends 206 of this book, so poems on mist hiding autumn leaves answer each other.
Author: Egyō
Source: Shui Wakashu
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