Samazama no asaji ga hara no mushi no ne o aware hitotsu ni kiki zo nashitsuru - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

さまざまの浅茅が原の虫の音を
あはれ一つに聞きぞなしつる

Roma-ji: Samazama no asaji ga hara no mushi no ne o aware hitotsu ni kiki zo nashitsuru
English Translation: The many voices
of insects in the meadow
of cogon grass,
as one single sorrow
I found myself hearing them
Meaning: The many voices of insects in the cogon meadow I came to hear as one single sorrow.
Commentary: Book Five Autumn Poems II 330

Headnote: "Composed on the topic 'Insect Voices Not One'"
Composed on the topic "Insect Voices Not One," that is, the many voices of insects. In the cogon field, the poet says, many kinds of insects cry each in its own voice, yet to him they all sounded as one and the same "aware," the same pathos. The craft lies in turning a topic about variety into the oneness those voices take on in the listening heart.
The author, "Sakon'e no Chūjō Yoshitsune," was the son of Regent Kujō Kanezane. He later became Regent and Chancellor and wrote the kana preface to the Shin Kokin Wakashū. He also excelled in calligraphy, and a poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

First line, "samazama no": taking up the topic's "not one," showing the variety of insect voices. It pairs with "hitotsu," one, near the close.
Second line, "asaji ga hara no": "asaji ga hara" is a field overgrown with cogon grass. Like "asaji ga moto" in 328 of this book, it sings of insects in the cogon.
Third line, "mushi no ne o": naming what is heard.
Fourth line, "aware hitotsu ni": "all as one pathos," setting the one against the many of "samazama" in the first line.
Fifth line, "kiki zo nashitsuru": "kikinasu" is to hear something in a certain way. "Zo" closes with "tsuru," the attributive of the perfective "tsu."
Author: Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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