Yamazato wa aki no sue ni zo omoishiru kanashikarikeri kogarashi no kaze

山里は秋の末にぞ思ひ知る
かなしかりけり木枯らしの風

Roma-ji: Yamazato wa aki no sue ni zo omoishiru kanashikarikeri kogarashi no kaze
English Translation: In a mountain home,
at the end of autumn's days
I come to know it:
how sad it is, I find,
the withering winter wind.
Meaning: In a mountain village it is at the end of autumn that one truly comes to know it: how sad is the wind that strips the trees bare.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 487

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed while in retreat at Hōrin Temple at the end of autumn"
This is another poem composed in retreat at Hōrin Temple, closing the four poems under this headnote. It is at the end of autumn that the loneliness of a dwelling in the mountains is truly learned; how sad is the kogarashi, the wind that strips the trees of their leaves. In the bleak wind that scatters the autumn leaves and heralds winter, the poet catches the loneliness of autumn's end in the mountain village.
It was included in the Shin Chokusen Wakashū. The closing kogarashi no kaze is the same as the last line of the next poem, so the two are joined by the bleak wind and announce the end of autumn.

First line, “yamazato wa”: a dwelling in the mountains, singled out by wa.
Second line, “aki no sue ni zo”: at the end of autumn indeed, with zo forming a kakari-musubi with shiru in the third line.
Third line, “omoishiru”: the attributive answering zo, to learn it deeply; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “kanashikarikeri”: keri expresses realization, how sad it is; the poem breaks here too.
Fifth line, “kogarashi no kaze”: ending on a noun, the strong wind that strips the leaves at the end of autumn and into winter.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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