Tonari ine hara no kariya ni akasu yo wa shika aware naru mono ni zo arikeru

隣ゐね原の仮屋に明かす夜は
鹿あはれなるものにぞありける

Roma-ji: Tonari ine hara no kariya ni akasu yo wa shika aware naru mono ni zo arikeru
English Translation: With no neighbor near,
nights I pass in a rough hut
out upon the moor,
how the deer so move the heart,
that is how it is, I find.
Meaning: On nights spent in a makeshift hut on the moor, with no neighbors near, the deer's call proves to be a thing that moves the heart deeply.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 439

Headnote: "Hearing deer in a secluded dwelling"
The topic is hearing deer in a quiet dwelling far from others. Passing the night in a makeshift hut on the moor with no neighbors near, the poet finds that the deer's call sinks deep into his heart. It is in a lonely dwelling with no sign of people that the aware of the deer's call is felt most deeply.
Using the same phrase shika aware naru as 435, with its mountain village where the deer move the heart, this poem hears the deer in a hut on a moor still farther from human dwellings than the mountain village. The first line of the text reads tonari ine, which does not match tonari inu in the reading line; the text is followed here, while the meaning follows the reading line, with no one living next door.

First line, “tonari ine”: understood as with no one living next door, answering the topic's secluded dwelling.
Second line, “hara no kariya ni”: kariya is a rough makeshift hut, in a hut on the moor.
Third line, “akasu yo wa”: on nights spent there, singled out by wa.
Fourth line, “shika aware naru”: the deer's call moving the heart deeply, the same as the fourth line of 435.
Fifth line, “mono ni zo arikeru”: zo is answered by the attributive keru, expressing the realization that such is the way of it.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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