Shinohara ya kiri ni magaite naku shika no koe kasuka naru aki no yūgure

篠原や霧にまがひて鳴く鹿の
声かすかなる秋の夕暮

Roma-ji: Shinohara ya kiri ni magaite naku shika no koe kasuka naru aki no yūgure
English Translation: O the bamboo moor!
Lost and mingled in the mist,
how a deer's call sounds,
so faint and distant is its voice
in the autumn evening dusk.
Meaning: Ah, the moor of bamboo grass: lost in the mist, a deer is calling, its voice so faint in the autumn dusk.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 438

Headnote: "Hearing a deer at evening"
The topic is hearing a deer at evening. Mist hangs over a moor thick with bamboo grass, and the call of a deer, lost to sight in the mist, is faintly heard in the autumn dusk. The poem paints a lonely scene in which only the faint voice of an unseen deer sounds through mist and twilight.
The device of faintly hearing a deer's call through the mist echoes 300, in which a deer's voice is faintly heard through breaks in the mist of the deep mountains. The closing aki no yūgure is the same as in the autumn dusk poems from 289.

First line, “shinohara ya”: shinohara is a moor thick with bamboo grass, and ya is exclamatory; the poem breaks after the first line.
Second line, “kiri ni magaite”: magau is to be indistinguishable, lost in the mist.
Third line, “naku shika no”: of the deer that calls.
Fourth line, “koe kasuka naru”: its voice heard faintly.
Fifth line, “aki no yūgure”: ending on a noun, the dusk in which the deer's voice faintly sounds.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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