Fukisuguru kaze sae koto ni mi ni zo shimu yamada no io no aki no yūgure

吹き過ぐる風さへことに身にぞしむ
山田の庵の秋の夕暮

Roma-ji: Fukisuguru kaze sae koto ni mi ni zo shimu yamada no io no aki no yūgure
English Translation: Even the wind that
blows on past seems especially
piercing to the flesh,
at the hut by hillside fields
in the autumn evening dusk.
Meaning: Even the wind that blows past pierces me especially deeply at the hut by the hillside paddies in the autumn dusk.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 465

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Autumn evening at a farmhouse"
This poem continues the topic of an autumn evening at a country house. At the watch hut by the hillside paddies in the autumn dusk, even the wind that merely blows past pierces the poet especially deeply. The loneliness of the hut by the hillside fields, far from human dwellings, is expressed through the piercing wind.
Following the tears shed at the evening fields in the preceding poem, this one sings of the loneliness that pierces with the chill of the wind, and both poems end with aki no yūgure. Like wakite mi ni shimu in 257, it sings of the autumn wind piercing the body.

First line, “fukisuguru”: blowing past, modifying kaze in the second line.
Second line, “kaze sae koto ni”: sae adds, even the wind besides other things, and koto ni means especially.
Third line, “mi ni zo shimu”: zo is answered by the attributive shimu, stressing that it pierces the body; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “yamada no io no”: of the watch hut guarding the hillside paddy.
Fifth line, “aki no yūgure”: ending on a noun, the same last line as the preceding poem.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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