Saewataru urakaze ika ni samukaran chidori mureiru Yūsaki no ura

冴え渡る浦風いかに寒からん
千鳥群れゐるゆふさきの浦

Roma-ji: Saewataru urakaze ika ni samukaran chidori mureiru Yūsaki no ura
English Translation: Freezing all around,
the wind across the inlet,
how cold it must be!
where the plovers gather now
on the shore of Yūsaki.
Meaning: How cold it must be, the freezing wind off the inlet, at the bay of Yūsaki where the plovers gather in flocks.
Commentary: Winter Poems 562

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Ten winter poems"
This is the sixth of the ten winter poems. The poet imagines how cold the wind freezing over the inlet must be for the plovers gathered in flocks on the shore of Yūsaki. The cold of the winter shore is gauged by putting himself in the plovers' place.
Like 548 in this book, it pairs saewataru with the wind off the sea and sings of plovers, so the cold of the winter shore told in the five plover poems recurs within this sequence of ten.

First line, “saewataru”: saewataru is to grow cold all around.
Second line, “urakaze ika ni”: urakaze is the wind over an inlet or shore, and ika ni means how much.
Third line, “samukaran”: ran is present conjecture, how cold it must be; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “chidori mureiru”: mureiru is to gather in a flock.
Fifth line, “Yūsaki no ura”: Yūsaki no ura is the name of a bay; the poem ends on a noun, in inversion with the first three lines.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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