Madaki yori mi ni shimu kaze no keshiki kana aki sakidatsuru miyamabe no sato

まだきより身にしむ風の気色かな
秋先立つる深山辺の里

Roma-ji: Madaki yori mi ni shimu kaze no keshiki kana aki sakidatsuru miyamabe no sato
English Translation: Even ahead of time
how this wind pierces my flesh,
such is its feeling:
in the hamlet by deep hills
autumn comes before its season.
Meaning: Even before its time, the wind already pierces me to the bone; in this village by the deep mountains, autumn arrives ahead of the season.
Commentary: Summer Poems 250

Headnote: "A cool wind like autumn"
This poem was composed on the topic of a cool wind like autumn. Though it is still summer, in the village at the edge of the deep mountains a wind that pierces like autumn's is already blowing. The early arrival of autumn in a mountain village is caught in the feel of the wind.
From here to the end of the summer section, poems sensing autumn follow. Where the summer moon poems from 242 of this book showed scenes of autumn and winter, now the wind itself runs ahead into autumn.

First line, “madaki yori”: from before the proper time.
Second line, “mi ni shimu kaze no”: a wind that pierces the body; mi ni shimu often describes the autumn wind.
Third line, “keshiki kana”: keshiki is appearance or feel, and the exclamatory kana makes a break after the third line.
Fourth line, “aki sakidatsuru”: autumn coming first, arriving earlier than elsewhere.
Fifth line, “miyamabe no sato”: the poem ends on a noun, naming the village by the deep mountains where autumn comes early.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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