Aki no kuru keshiki no mori no shitakaze ni tachisou mono wa aware narikeri - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

秋の来るけしきの森の下風に
立ち添ふものはあはれなりけり

Roma-ji: Aki no kuru keshiki no mori no shitakaze ni tachisou mono wa aware narikeri
English Translation: In the undergrowth wind
of the Forest of Signs
where autumn shows its coming,
what rises up beside it
is a sorrow deep and still
Meaning: In the wind beneath the trees of the Forest of Signs, where autumn shows signs of its coming, what rises up and draws close to me is a deep, quiet sorrow.
Commentary: Book Four Autumn Poems I 228

Headnote: "Composed on the coming of autumn when presenting a hundred-poem sequence"
Composed on "the coming of autumn" for a hundred-poem sequence presented to Retired Emperor Sutoku. In the wind blowing under the trees of the Forest of Signs, which shows signs of autumn's coming, what rises up and draws close is a feeling of deep sorrow. Layering autumn's "keshiki," its signs, onto the name of the poetic Forest of Keshiki, it depicts the pathos of autumn pressing on the heart with the wind.
The author, "Taikenmon'in no Horikawa," was a daughter of Minamoto no Akinaka, head of the Department of Divinities. A lady-in-waiting to Taikenmon'in Fujiwara no Tamako, consort of Emperor Toba, she was one of the leading women poets of the cloistered-rule period and one of the poets of Retired Emperor Sutoku's Kyūan Hundred-Poem Sequence. Her name is written with a different character for "kawa" in 264 of this book, but she is the same person.
This poem and the next, 229, were both composed on "the coming of autumn" for the Kyūan Hundred-Poem Sequence. Where the two preceding poems knew autumn by the concrete signs of wind and dew, this one speaks of autumn's "keshiki" and the "aware" welling in the heart.

First line, "aki no kuru": "where autumn comes," modifying "keshiki" in the second line.
Second line, "keshiki no mori no": "keshiki" is a pivot word for "signs" or "appearance" and the Forest of Keshiki, a poetic place said to be in Ōsumi: "the Forest of Signs that shows autumn coming."
Third line, "shitakaze ni": "shitakaze" is the wind blowing beneath the trees. Following "ogi no hakaze" in the book's opening poem, 226, it again tells of autumn's coming through the wind.
Fourth line, "tachisou mono wa": "tachisou" means to rise and draw near. The wind's "rising" overlaps with the sorrow that "rises up" in the heart.
Fifth line, "aware narikeri": "keri" expresses realization, showing the poet aware that what presses on her with the autumn wind is a deep sorrow.
Author: Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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