Fukiwatasu kaze ni aware o hitoshimete izuku mo sugoki aki no yūgure

吹き渡す風にあはれをひとしめて
いづくもすごき秋の夕暮

Roma-ji: Fukiwatasu kaze ni aware o hitoshimete izuku mo sugoki aki no yūgure
English Translation: Through the wind that blows
far and wide, the heart's sorrow
spread on all alike,
everywhere is desolate
in the autumn evening dusk.
Meaning: The wind that sweeps across fills every place alike with sadness, and everywhere is chillingly lonely in this autumn dusk.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 289

Headnote: "Among autumn poems"
The headnote shows that this is one of a group of poems composed on autumn. The wind blowing across the hills and fields fills every place alike with aware, so that everywhere is chillingly lonely in the autumn dusk. The poem catches not a particular image but the loneliness filling the whole autumn evening.
From here four poems under the same headnote dwell on the loneliness and sadness of autumn evening, and three of them end with aki no yūgure. 470, which tells of aware felt even by one without heart, ends with the same line, so the autumn dusk is a theme that returns again and again through this book.

First line, “fukiwatasu”: the wind blowing widely across, showing how far it reaches.
Second line, “kaze ni aware o”: by the wind, the quiet feeling of things.
Third line, “hitoshimete”: making it the same everywhere, placing aware alike in every place.
Fourth line, “izuku mo sugoki”: sugoshi means chillingly lonely, every scene equally desolate.
Fifth line, “aki no yūgure”: ending on a noun, the autumn dusk in which loneliness reaches its height.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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