Aki kururu tsukinami wakuru yamagatsu no kokoro urayamu kyō no yūgure

秋暮るる月並分くる山がつの
心うらやむ今日の夕暮

Roma-ji: Aki kururu tsukinami wakuru yamagatsu no kokoro urayamu kyō no yūgure
English Translation: Autumn closing out,
how I envy the mountain folk
who mark it by the month,
for the hearts they have, this day,
in the evening's falling dusk.
Meaning: On this evening as autumn ends, I envy the mountain folk, who simply mark the seasons off by the turning of the months.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 489

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Late autumn"
This poem continues the topic of late autumn. The simple heart of the mountain folk, who can treat autumn as over once the month of the calendar changes, seems enviable to the poet, who cannot stop grieving for autumn, on this evening of the last day of the season. The depth of his reluctance to let autumn go is expressed as envy of those who can take it in their stride.
Where the preceding poem wished to gaze at the autumn leaves as a keepsake, this one looks into the poet's own heart still grieving for autumn at dusk on its last day. The autumn dusk poems of this book reach here the last evening of autumn itself.

First line, “aki kururu”: autumn drawing to its close.
Second line, “tsukinami wakuru”: tsukinami is the order of the months, the months of the calendar, dividing the seasons by them.
Third line, “yamagatsu no”: yamagatsu are humble people living in the mountains.
Fourth line, “kokoro urayamu”: envying their hearts.
Fifth line, “kyō no yūgure”: ending on a noun, the evening of autumn's last day.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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