Hima mo naku chiru momijiba ni uzumorete niwa no keshiki mo fuyugomorikeri - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

隙もなく散る紅葉葉に埋もれて
庭の気色も冬籠もりけり

Roma-ji: Hima mo naku chiru momijiba ni uzumorete niwa no keshiki mo fuyugomorikeri
English Translation: Buried beneath
the crimson leaves that fall
without a pause,
even the garden's aspect
has shut itself in for winter
Meaning: Buried beneath the autumn leaves that fall without pause, even the look of the garden has withdrawn into winter seclusion.
Commentary: Book Six Winter Poems 390

Headnote: "Composed on the topic 'Early Winter' when he called for a hundred-poem sequence"
Composed by Retired Emperor Sutoku himself on the topic of early winter when he called for a hundred-poem sequence. Buried beneath the autumn leaves that fall without pause, he says, even the look of the garden has withdrawn into winter seclusion. Transferring to the garden the winter seclusion of people shut up at home, he depicts an early winter garden hushed beneath a cover of fallen leaves.
The author, "Sutokuin Gyosei," is Emperor Sutoku, the seventy-fifth emperor and son of Emperor Toba, who was exiled to Sanuki after his defeat in the Hōgen Disturbance. He conceived the Kyūan Hyakushu and had Fujiwara no Akisuke compile the Shika Wakashū. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
The five poems from 390 to 394 are poems on early winter taken from Retired Emperor Sutoku's Kyūan Hyakushu. The Kyūan Hyakushu is the hundred-poem sequence that Retired Emperor Sutoku commissioned from poets such as Fujiwara no Akisuke and Fujiwara no Shunzei, presented in the sixth year of Kyūan (1150).

First line, "hima mo naku": "without a gap, without pause," showing how thickly the leaves fall.
Second line, "chiru momijiba ni": "momijiba" are leaves turned red. Where the preceding poem, 389, showed winter by ice among the twigs, this poem shows it by a carpet of fallen leaves.
Third line, "uzumorete": "buried," hidden beneath the leaves.
Fourth line, "niwa no keshiki mo": "keshiki" is the look or aspect of a thing, and "mo" adds "even the garden, not only people."
Fifth line, "fuyugomorikeri": "fuyugomoru" is to stay shut in through the winter, personifying the garden, and "keri" expresses realization.
Author: Retired Emperor Sutoku
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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