Kurehatsuru aki no katami ni shibashi min momiji chirasu na kogarashi no kaze

暮れ果つる秋の形見にしばし見ん
紅葉散らすな木枯らしの風

Roma-ji: Kurehatsuru aki no katami ni shibashi min momiji chirasu na kogarashi no kaze
English Translation: As a keepsake of
the autumn now ending, let me
gaze a little while:
do not scatter the red leaves,
withering wind of winter.
Meaning: Let me gaze a little while at the leaves as a keepsake of the autumn that is ending; do not scatter them, bleak winter wind.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 488

Headnote: "Late autumn"
The topic is autumn drawing to its close. The poet wishes to gaze a while longer at the autumn leaves as a keepsake of the autumn about to end, and so begs the bleak wind not to scatter them. Grieving for the departing season, he wishes to protect its last trace, the autumn leaves, from the wind.
It ends with the same kogarashi no kaze as the preceding poem; where that poem lamented the bleak wind as sad, this one calls on it not to scatter the leaves. Just as 412 made the moon a keepsake of the capital, here the autumn leaves are made a keepsake of autumn.

First line, “kurehatsuru”: drawing completely to a close, the end of autumn.
Second line, “aki no katami ni”: as a keepsake by which to remember the departing autumn.
Third line, “shibashi min”: n is the volitional mu, let me gaze for a while; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “momiji chirasu na”: na is a prohibitive particle, do not scatter the leaves.
Fifth line, “kogarashi no kaze”: the wind addressed, the same last line as the preceding poem.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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