Kaze araki shiba no iori wa tsune yori mo nezame zo mono wa kanashikarikeru

風荒き柴の庵は常よりも
寝覚めぞものは悲しかりける

Roma-ji: Kaze araki shiba no iori wa tsune yori mo nezame zo mono wa kanashikarikeru
English Translation: In my brushwood hut
where the wind blows rough and wild,
more than other nights,
waking in the dark of night
is what fills me most with grief.
Meaning: In my brushwood hut, where the wind blows so roughly, waking in the night is sadder than ever.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1134

Headnote: "On the same journey"
Composed on the same journey through Shimotsuke as the preceding poem. In a brushwood hut where the wind blows roughly, waking in the night is sadder than usual.
Following the brushwood smoke of the preceding poem, this one sings of a night in a brushwood hut on the road. The loneliness of waking alone under a distant sky, roused by the rough wind, is condensed in the single word nezame.

First line, “kaze araki”: where the wind blows rough.
Second line, “shiba no iori wa”: in a hut of brushwood, echoing the brushwood smoke of the preceding poem.
Third line, “tsune yori mo”: more than usual.
Fourth line, “nezame zo mono wa”: zo is emphatic, answered by the attributive keru.
Fifth line, “kanashikarikeru”: closing the zo construction, "how sad it is."
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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