Ikabakari aki no nagori o nagamemashi kesa wa ko no ha ni arashi fukazu wa - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

いかばかり秋の名残を眺めまし
今朝は木の葉に嵐吹かずは

Roma-ji: Ikabakari aki no nagori o nagamemashi kesa wa ko no ha ni arashi fukazu wa
English Translation: How long I would gaze
on what remains of autumn,
lingering and loath,
had the storm wind not blown this morning
through the leaves upon the trees
Meaning: How long I could have gazed on what remains of autumn, had the storm wind not blown through the leaves this morning.
Commentary: Book Six Winter Poems 388

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on the topic 'Early Winter' when a hundred-poem sequence was presented in the reign of Emperor Horikawa"
Composed on the topic of early winter for the Horikawa Hyakushu. Had the storm wind not blown through the leaves this morning, the poet says, how long he might have gazed on what remains of autumn. He regrets that the storm of the first winter morning has scattered the few autumn leaves still left, lamenting that winter has come before he could savor the last of autumn.
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.
This poem and the two that follow, through 389, are poems on early winter from the Horikawa Hyakushu. In the Horikawa Hyakushu, poets such as Minamoto no Toshiyori and Fujiwara no Kinzane each composed a hundred poems on shared topics in Horikawa's reign, and it became the model for later hundred-poem sequences.

First line, "ikabakari": "how much," answering the "mashi" of the third line to give the degree of a supposition, "how long I would have gazed."
Second line, "aki no nagori o": "nagori" is what lingers after something has passed, here the autumn leaves still on the branches.
Third line, "nagamemashi": "mashi" is the auxiliary of the counterfactual, answering "zu wa" in the last line. The poem pauses here, and its two halves are inverted.
Fourth line, "kesa wa ko no ha ni": "this morning, upon the leaves," the morning that begins winter, naming where the storm strikes.
Fifth line, "arashi fukazu wa": "zu wa" means "had it not," a supposition contrary to fact, lamenting from the other side the storm that did blow.
Author: Minamoto no Toshiyori
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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