Mizu no oto ni atsusa wasururu matoi kana kozue no semi no koe mo magirete

水の音に暑さ忘るるまとゐかな
梢の蝉の声もまぎれて

Roma-ji: Mizu no oto ni atsusa wasururu matoi kana kozue no semi no koe mo magirete
English Translation: By the water's sound
the heat is all forgotten,
gathered here in a ring,
even the cicadas' cries
in the treetops lost in it.
Meaning: How pleasant this gathering, where the sound of the water makes us forget the heat, and even the cicadas crying in the treetops are lost in it.
Commentary: Summer Poems 231

Headnote: "Composed at Kitashirakawa on the topic of enjoying the cool by the water"
The headnote tells us this poem was composed at Kitashirakawa on the topic of enjoying the cool by the water. People gather by the stream and, in the sound of flowing water, forget the heat as they talk. Even the shrill cicadas in the treetops are lost in the sound of the water. The poem depicts a coolness in which both heat and cicada cries vanish into the murmur of the stream.
Where the preceding poem told of one person scooping water from a neighbor's spring, this one tells of coolness shared by people gathered at the water, pairing solitary and shared relief from the heat.

First line, “mizu no oto ni”: by the sound of flowing water.
Second line, “atsusa wasururu”: forgetting the heat.
Third line, “matoi kana”: matoi is people gathered in a circle, and the exclamatory kana makes a break after the third line.
Fourth line, “kozue no semi no”: cicadas singing at the tips of the branches.
Fifth line, “koe mo magirete”: even their cries lost in the sound of the water, adding the reason for the third line afterwards.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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