Harusame no noki tarekomuru tsurezure ni hito ni shirarenu hito no sumika ka

春雨の軒たれこむるつれづれに
人に知られぬ人の住みかか

Roma-ji: Harusame no noki tarekomuru tsurezure ni hito ni shirarenu hito no sumika ka
English Translation: With the spring rain's drip
from the eaves, shut in all day
in my idle hours,
this is the dwelling place of
one unknown to all the world.
Meaning: As the spring rain drips from the eaves and I stay shut away in idle loneliness, I feel this truly is the dwelling of someone the world does not know.
Commentary: Spring Poems 45

Headnote: "Composed at Ōhara on the topic “Spring rain at a mountain dwelling”"
According to the headnote, this poem was composed at Ōhara on the topic of spring rain at a mountain dwelling; the headnote's harunan is understood from the poem's content as harusame, spring rain. As the spring rain drips from the eaves and the poet spends idle hours shut indoors, he feels anew that this is the home of one who lives unknown to the world.
Ōhara is a mountain village north of the capital where those who had withdrawn from the world lived in seclusion. In the stillness closed off by the falling spring rain, the poet gazes upon his own life apart from society.

First line, “harusame no”: the gentle, steady rain of spring.
Second line, “noki tarekomuru”: tarekomu overlaps rain dripping from the eaves with lowering the blinds and staying shut indoors.
Third line, “tsurezure ni”: in idle, lonely hours with nothing to do.
Fourth line, “hito ni shirarenu”: unknown to the people of the world, the life of one in seclusion.
Fifth line, “hito no sumika ka”: ka is exclamatory, closing with the poet moved by his own situation as the dweller unknown to all.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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