Yūgiri ya aki no aware o kometsuran wakeiru sode ni tsuyu no okisou - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

夕霧や秋のあはれをこめつらむ
分け入る袖に露の置きそふ

Roma-ji: Yūgiri ya aki no aware o kometsuran wakeiru sode ni tsuyu no okisou
English Translation: The evening mist,
has it shut the sorrow
of autumn within?
on the sleeves that push inside
the dew settles more and more
Meaning: Has the evening mist shut the sorrow of autumn up within it? As I push my way in, dew settles more and more on my sleeves.
Commentary: Book Five Autumn Poems II 343

Headnote: "Composed as a poem on mist"
Composed as a poem on mist. Can the evening mist have shut the pathos of autumn up within it, the poet asks, for as he pushes into the mist, dew gathers more and more on his sleeves. Taking the real sensation of sleeves growing wet in the mist as the pathos of autumn, once enclosed in the mist, passing to his sleeves as dewy tears, he gives the invisible "aware" form as dew.
The author, "Hokkyō Sōen," was a monk who held the ecclesiastical rank of hokkyō, but little is known of his life.

First line, "yūgiri ya": the interrogative "ya" closes with the attributive "ramu" in the third line, naming the mist that rises at evening.
Second line, "aki no aware o": "aware" is the deep, moving feeling of things.
Third line, "kometsuran": "komu" is a pivot word meaning both for mist to hang thick and to enclose within. "Ramu" is the present conjecture, and the poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "wakeiru sode ni": "on the sleeves of one pushing into the mist."
Fifth line, "tsuyu no okisou": "okisou" is for dew to gather more and more. The dew on the sleeves also suggests tears, as if the pathos wrapped in the mist had passed to them as dew.
Author: Sōen
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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