Akenu tomo nao akikaze wa otozurete nobe no keshiki yo omogawari su na - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

明けぬともなほ秋風はおとづれて
野辺のけしきよ面変はりすな

Roma-ji: Akenu tomo nao akikaze wa otozurete nobe no keshiki yo omogawari su na
English Translation: Though the night may break,
still let the autumn wind
come calling as before:
you, the face of the fields,
do not change your look
Meaning: Even when the night breaks and winter comes, let the autumn wind still come calling, and you, the fields, do not change your face.
Commentary: Book Five Autumn Poems II 384

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on the topic 'The Last Day of the Ninth Month' at a poetry contest held at the banquet after the dedication of sutras at Ungoji"
Composed on the topic of the last day of the ninth month at the poetry contest held at the banquet after the dedication of sutras at Ungoji. When this night breaks it will be winter by the calendar, the poet says, yet let the autumn wind still come calling, and you, the face of the fields, do not change your look. On the last night of autumn he calls out as if refusing the change of season to come, expressing his regret at autumn's passing.
The author, "Minamoto no Toshiyori Ason," was the son of Major Counselor Minamoto no Tsunenobu. The central poet of Emperor Horikawa's poetry circle, he compiled the Kin'yō Wakashū at the command of Retired Emperor Shirakawa and wrote the treatise Toshiyori Zuinō. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
"Kugatsujin," the end of the ninth month, is the last day of the ninth lunar month, the final day of autumn. It was composed at the same contest as the preceding poem, 383.

First line, "akenu tomo": "nu" is perfective and "tomo" a concessive supposition, "even when the night has broken," meaning the night of the last day of the ninth month giving way to winter.
Second line, "nao akikaze wa": "nao" means "still, even so."
Third line, "otozurete": "otozuru" is to visit, with an echo of making a sound, wishing the autumn wind would keep coming.
Fourth line, "nobe no keshiki yo": "keshiki" is the look of things, and "yo" is vocative, personifying the scene of the fields and calling out to it.
Fifth line, "omogawari su na": "omogawari" is a change in one's face or appearance, and "na" is a prohibitive, "do not change your look."
Author: Minamoto no Toshiyori
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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