Akikaze wa fuki na yaburi so waga yado no abara kakuseru kumo no sugaki o - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

秋風は吹きな破りそ我が宿の
あばら隠せる蜘蛛のすがきを

Roma-ji: Akikaze wa fuki na yaburi so waga yado no abara kakuseru kumo no sugaki o
English Translation: Autumn wind, I pray,
do not blow and tear apart
what hides the gaps
of my poor and broken house:
the web the spider has spun.
Meaning: Autumn wind, do not blow and tear the spider's web that hides the gaping holes of my ramshackle house.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Autumn Poems 1111

Headnote: "From among the three hundred sixty poems"
The poet calls on the autumn wind not to tear apart the spider's web that hides the gaping holes of his ramshackle house. The headnote shows it is one of the Maigetsushū, the cycle of three hundred sixty poems for the whole year. With a touch of humor, it portrays a poor dwelling that must rely even on a spider's web.
The author, written as "Yoshitada," is Sone no Yoshitada, called Sotan from his post as a junior official of Tango, a poet who composed the Maigetsushū, a cycle of three hundred sixty poems for the whole year, and who was known for a fresh style that boldly took in everyday words.

First line, "akikaze wa," means "autumn wind."
Second line, "fuki na yaburi so," means "do not blow and tear," with "na ... so" expressing a prohibition. The poem breaks after this second line.
Third line, "waga yado no," means "of my house," sharing the same words with the third lines of 1109 in this book, "waga yado ni," and of 1113 and 1114, "waga yado no."
Fourth line, "abara kakuseru," means "that hides the gaping holes," with "ru" the attributive form of the continuative "ri."
Final line, "kumo no sugaki o," means "the spider's web," closing with the object of the second line placed in inversion. It echoes the third line of the opening poem, 1082, "sasagani no," in singing of the spider's thread.
Author: Sone no Yoshitada
Source: Shui Wakashu
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