Oshinabete onaji tsukihi no sugiyukeba miyako mo kaku ya toshi wa kurenuru

おしなべて同じ月日の過ぎゆけば
都もかくや年は暮れぬる

Roma-ji: Oshinabete onaji tsukihi no sugiyukeba miyako mo kaku ya toshi wa kurenuru
English Translation: Everywhere alike
the selfsame months and days
go passing by,
so in the capital as well
has the year now reached its end?
Meaning: Since the same months and days pass by everywhere alike, has the year come to its end in the capital too, just as it has here?
Commentary: Winter Poems 575

Headnote: "Sent at the end of the year from Mount Kōya to someone in the capital"
The headnote tells us this was sent at the end of the year from Mount Kōya to someone in the capital. Since the same months and days pass alike in the mountains and in the capital, the poet asks whether the year has ended in the capital just as it has here. He links distant Kōya and the capital through the same flow of time, thinking of his friend in the city.
Where the preceding poem told of a year's end unlike that of the world, this one tells of the same months and days flowing at Kōya and in the capital, overlaying the year's end in two distant places. Its last line echoes toshi no kurenuru in the poems around it.

First line, “oshinabete”: all alike, everywhere the same.
Second line, “onaji tsukihi no”: tsukihi is the months and days, the same days in the mountains and in the capital.
Third line, “sugiyukeba”: ba marks an established condition, since they pass by.
Fourth line, “miyako mo kaku ya”: ya is a question particle binding with the attributive nuru in the last line, in the capital too, like this.
Fifth line, “toshi wa kurenuru”: nuru is the attributive of the perfective, answering ya, has the year ended there too, closing on his thoughts of the capital.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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