Ogi no ha o fukisugite yuku kaze no oto ni kokoro midaruru aki no yūgure

荻の葉を吹き過ぎて行く風の音に
心乱るる秋の夕暮

Roma-ji: Ogi no ha o fukisugite yuku kaze no oto ni kokoro midaruru aki no yūgure
English Translation: Through the reed grass leaves
blowing on and passing by,
by the sound of wind
how my heart is thrown in turmoil
in the autumn evening dusk.
Meaning: At the sound of the wind blowing past through the leaves of the reed grass, my heart falls into turmoil in the autumn dusk.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 299

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When people composed ten autumn poems each"
This is the fourth poem in the set of ten. At the sound of the wind blowing past through the leaves of the reed grass, the poet's heart is thrown into turmoil in the autumn dusk. Drawing on the tradition of feeling autumn's aware in the rustle of the reed grass, it tells of the heart disturbed by that sound.
Where 285 spoke of the reed grass leaves tossed by the autumn evening wind, here what is tossed is not the leaves but the heart, so the leaves stirred by the wind and the heart stirred by its sound answer each other. The closing aki no yūgure is also the same as in the autumn dusk poems from 289.

First line, “ogi no ha o”: the leaves of the reed grass, known for the rustle that heralds autumn.
Second line, “fukisugite yuku”: the wind blowing through the reed leaves and passing on.
Third line, “kaze no oto ni”: a hypermetric line of six syllables, by the sound of the wind.
Fourth line, “kokoro midaruru”: the heart thrown into disorder, answering ogi no ha midaru in 285.
Fifth line, “aki no yūgure”: ending on a noun, the time when the heart is troubled.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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