Aki wa kinu toshi mo nakaba ni suginu to ya ogi fuku kaze no odorokasuran - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

秋は来ぬ年も半ばに過ぎぬとや
荻吹く風のおどろかすらん

Roma-ji: Aki wa kinu toshi mo nakaba ni suginu to ya ogi fuku kaze no odorokasuran
English Translation: "Autumn has come,
and the year is past its half,"
is that what it says,
the wind that blows through the reeds
and startles me awake?
Meaning: "Autumn has come, and the year is already half gone": is that what the wind through the reeds is telling me as it startles me?
Commentary: Book Four Autumn Poems I 230

Headnote: "Composed on the feeling of early autumn"
Composed on the feeling of "early autumn." The poet wonders whether the wind blowing through the reeds startles him in order to say that autumn has come and the year is already half over. Taking the beginning of autumn as the turning point of the year, it entrusts to the sound of the wind in the reeds not only the change of season but surprise at how swiftly the years go by.
The author, "Priest Jakuzen," had the lay name Fujiwara no Yorinari and was the son of Fujiwara no Tametada, Governor of Tango. After taking holy orders he lived at Ōhara, and together with his elder brothers Jakunen and Jakuchō he was called one of the Three Jaku of Tokiwa, or of Ōhara. He was also a close friend of Saigyō.
It takes up "odoroku," to be startled, from Fujiwara no Toshiyuki's Kokin poem, "Though autumn's coming cannot be clearly seen, I am startled by the sound of the wind," and has the wind "startle" people. Where the opening poem, 226, caught the change of the wind in a single day, this poem receives autumn's arrival on the scale of a whole year.

First line, "aki wa kinu": "nu" is perfective, stating flatly that autumn has come.
Second line, "toshi mo nakaba ni": "the year, too, half," seeing the start of autumn as the year's midpoint.
Third line, "suginu to ya": "nu" is perfective and "to ya" means "saying that ... is it?"; the interrogative "ya" links with "ran" in the last line.
Fourth line, "ogi fuku kaze no": "the wind blowing through the reeds." Like "ogi no hakaze" in the book's opening poem, 226, it knows autumn by the wind in the reeds.
Fifth line, "odorokasuran": "odorokasu" means to startle into awareness, and "ran," the attributive of present conjecture, closes with "ya." Taking up Toshiyuki's "odorokarenuru," it has the wind itself startle people.
Author: Jakuzen
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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