Shika no ne o kiku ni tsukete mo sumu hito no kokoro shiraruru Ono no yamazato

鹿の音を聞くにつけても住む人の
心知らるる小野の山里

Roma-ji: Shika no ne o kiku ni tsukete mo sumu hito no kokoro shiraruru Ono no yamazato
English Translation: Every time I hear
the deer call, it lets me know,
of the one who lives
here within, what the heart is
in this mountain home of Ono.
Meaning: Each time I hear the deer call, I come to understand the heart of the one who lives here, in the mountain village of Ono.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 441

Headnote: "When I went to Ono to visit someone and a deer called"
The headnote tells us this was composed when the poet went to Ono to visit someone and a deer called. Hearing the deer in the mountain village of Ono, he comes to sense how deep is the heart of one who chooses to live in so lonely a place. From the loneliness of the mountain village, embodied in the deer's call, he thinks of the depth of heart of the one who lives there.
Where the deer poems before told of hearing the deer at the poet's own dwelling, this one visits a mountain village where someone else lives, and through the deer's call comes to know that person's heart.

First line, “shika no ne o”: the call of the deer.
Second line, “kiku ni tsukete mo”: each time I hear it.
Third line, “sumu hito no”: of the one who lives in this mountain village, the person visited in the headnote.
Fourth line, “kokoro shiraruru”: ruru is the attributive of the spontaneous ru, the depth of heart comes to be known of itself.
Fifth line, “Ono no yamazato”: ending on a noun, the mountain village of Ono at the foot of Mount Hiei, northeast of the capital.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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