Aki kinu to kikitsuru kara ni waga yado no ogi no hakaze no fukikawaruran - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

秋来ぬと聞きつるからに我が宿の
荻の葉風の吹きかはるらん

Roma-ji: Aki kinu to kikitsuru kara ni waga yado no ogi no hakaze no fukikawaruran
English Translation: Since I heard them say
"Autumn has come," the wind
upon the reeds
in my garden, can it be,
has changed the way it blows?
Meaning: No sooner had I heard that autumn had come than the wind through the reed leaves of my garden seemed to change. Has it already turned into an autumn wind?
Commentary: Book Four Autumn Poems I 226

Headnote: "Composed on the first day of autumn"
Composed on the first day of autumn. From the very moment the poet heard that autumn had begun, the sound of the wind through the reeds in her garden seemed to change, and she wonders whether it has already turned into an autumn wind. Overlaying the calendar's news of autumn, heard with the ears, with the rustling of reed leaves, also heard with the ears, the poem catches the unseen arrival of autumn through sound. It opens the first book of autumn poems.
The author, "Jijū no Menoto," was a lady known as the nurse Jijū, but little is known of her life.
Ever since Fujiwara no Toshiyuki's poem in the Kokin Wakashū, "Though autumn's coming cannot be clearly seen, I am startled by the sound of the wind," the beginning of autumn has been sung as something unseen and known by the wind's sound. This poem stands in that tradition, and the next poem, 227, draws directly on Toshiyuki's. After the final poem of Book Three, 225, closed summer with the autumn wind on one's sleeves, this book opens with the autumn wind in the reeds.

First line, "aki kinu to": "nu" is perfective, "autumn has come," giving the words that announce the season. The next poem, 227, and 245 of this book also open with this line on the news of autumn.
Second line, "kikitsuru kara ni": "tsuru" is the attributive of the perfective "tsu," and "kara ni" means "as soon as," stressing how quickly the change followed the news.
Third line, "waga yado no": "of my house," showing that these are the reeds in her own garden. The book's final poem, 301, speaks of a "bed on a journey," answering this opening "my house" and closing the book.
Fourth line, "ogi no hakaze no": the "ogi" is a reed growing by the water whose rustling announces autumn. "Ogi fuku kaze" in 230 and "ogi no uwakaze" in 233 of this book also depict wind in the reeds.
Fifth line, "fukikawaruran": "ran" is the present conjecture "ramu," "has it changed the way it blows?", guessing at the cause of the change before her.
Author: Jijū no Menoto
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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