Akikaze wa nami to tomo ni ya koenuran madaki suzushiki Sue no Matsuyama - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

秋風は浪とともにや越えぬらん
まだき涼しき末の松山

Roma-ji: Akikaze wa nami to tomo ni ya koenuran madaki suzushiki Sue no Matsuyama
English Translation: Has the autumn wind
come crossing over with the waves
that never cross?
Already it is cool
at Sue no Matsuyama
Meaning: Has the autumn wind come crossing over together with the waves? It is summer still, yet already cool at Sue no Matsuyama.
Commentary: Book Three Summer Poems 220

Headnote: "Composed on the topic 'Autumn Is Near in the Wind Through the Pines'"
Composed on the topic "Autumn Is Near in the Wind Through the Pines." It is still summer, yet Sue no Matsuyama is already cool, and the poet wonders whether the autumn wind has crossed over the hill together with the waves. Drawing on the old tradition that waves never cross Sue no Matsuyama, the wit of the autumn wind alone crossing early with waves that should never cross conveys how near autumn is.
The author, "Fujiwara no Chikamori," was the son of Fujiwara no Chikayasu, Governor of Suō. He served as an officer of the Left Gate Guards and studied imayō in the service of Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa. He took holy orders after the Retired Emperor's death.
Since the Eastern Song in the Kokin Wakashū, "If ever I should set you aside and give my heart to another, the waves would cross over Sue no Matsuyama," Sue no Matsuyama has been sung as a place no wave crosses, in vows of a changeless heart.

First line, "akikaze wa": the subject of the poem. Following the autumn wind of 207 of this book, it speaks of signs of autumn.
Second line, "nami to tomo ni ya": the interrogative "ya" links with "ran" in the third line. It draws on the waves crossing Sue no Matsuyama in the Kokin Eastern Song.
Third line, "koenuran": "nu" is perfective and "ran" the attributive of present conjecture: "has it crossed over?" The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "madaki suzushiki": "madaki" means "already, before its time."
Fifth line, "Sue no Matsuyama": ends on a noun, a poetic place in Michinoku, expressing "the wind through the pines" in the headnote. The three poems on the signs of autumn end here.
Author: Fujiwara no Chikamori
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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