Somayama ni tatsu keburi koso kannazuki shigure o kudasu kumo to narikere - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

杣山に立つ煙こそ神無月
時雨をくだす雲となりけれ

Roma-ji: Somayama ni tatsu keburi koso kannazuki shigure o kudasu kumo to narikere
English Translation: On the lumber hills,
it is the smoke that rises
in the godless month
that has turned into the clouds
that send the cold showers down.
Meaning: The smoke rising from the lumbering mountains has become the very clouds that send down the showers of the tenth month.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Autumn Poems 1138

Headnote: "On the early winter showers"
The poet says that the smoke rising from the lumbering mountains has become the very clouds that send down the showers of the tenth month. The headnote shows it was composed on the topic of early winter showers. Imagining the smoke from fires in the timber-cutting hills rising to form clouds that bring the first showers of winter, it portrays an early winter scene in the mountain villages.
From here through 1141, poems on the showers of the tenth month follow one another.
The author, written as "Yoshinobu," is Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu, of a family of Shinto priests, who served as chief priest of the Ise Shrine and, as one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber, took part in compiling the Gosenshū. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "somayama ni," means "on the mountains where timber is cut."
Second line, "tatsu keburi koso," means "it is the smoke that rises," with the binding particle "koso" answered by the perfective form "kere" in the final line.
Third line, "kannazuki," is the tenth month by the lunar calendar, the first month of winter. It shares the same word with the third line of 1140 in this book, "kannazuki."
Fourth line, "shigure o kudasu," means "that sends down the showers." From 1139 through 1141 in this book, poems on the early winter showers follow one another.
Final line, "kumo to narikere," means "has become the clouds," with "kere," the perfective form of "keri" expressing a sigh of realization, resolving the "koso" of the second line.
Author: Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
Source: Shui Wakashu
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