Nowaki suru nobe no keshiki o miru toki wa kokoro naki hito araji to zo omou - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

野分する野辺の気色を見る時は
心なき人あらじとぞ思ふ

Roma-ji: Nowaki suru nobe no keshiki o miru toki wa kokoro naki hito araji to zo omou
English Translation: When I gaze upon
the fields where the autumn gale
has swept the grasses,
there can be no one, I think,
whose heart would not be stirred
Meaning: When I look at the fields swept by the autumn gale, I think there can be no one without a heart for beauty.
Commentary: Book Four Autumn Poems I 258

Headnote: "Composed as an autumn poem when presenting a hundred-poem sequence"
Composed on "autumn" for a hundred-poem sequence presented to Retired Emperor Sutoku. When he sees the fields where the autumn gale has swept through, flattening and tangling the grasses, the poet thinks that anyone at all would be moved, and that no one could be without a feeling heart. Finding deep pathos even in fields ravaged by the gale, he expresses the force of his emotion by saying that everyone becomes a person of feeling.
The author, "Fujiwara no Suemichi Ason," was the son of Provisional Major Counselor Fujiwara no Munemichi and the younger brother of Chancellor Fujiwara no Koremichi. Renowned also as a master of the biwa and koto, he was one of the poets of Retired Emperor Sutoku's Kyūan Hundred-Poem Sequence.
This poem and the next, 259, were both composed on "autumn" for the Kyūan Hundred-Poem Sequence.

First line, "nowaki suru": "nowaki" is the fierce autumn gale that parts the grasses of the fields.
Second line, "nobe no keshiki o": "keshiki" is the appearance of things, here the fields tossed by the gale.
Third line, "miru toki wa": "when I look."
Fourth line, "kokoro naki hito": "a person without a heart for beauty."
Fifth line, "araji to zo omou": "araji" means "there would be none," carrying through the gale an echo of "arashi," storm. "Zo" closes with the attributive "omou."
Author: Fujiwara no Suemichi
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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