Take no oto mo ogi fuku kaze no sukunaki ni taguete kikeba yasashikarikeri

竹の音も荻吹く風の少なきに
たぐへて聞けばやさしかりけり

Roma-ji: Take no oto mo ogi fuku kaze no sukunaki ni taguete kikeba yasashikarikeri
English Translation: The sound of bamboo, too,
where the wind that stirs the reeds
is so seldom heard,
when I hear it likened so,
turns out graceful and refined.
Meaning: Where the sound of wind through the reeds is seldom heard, the rustling of the bamboo, when I listen to it as if it were the reeds, turns out to be graceful too.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1146

Headnote: "Going to a mountain village, I heard the wind in the bamboo sounding like wind in the reeds"
Visiting a mountain village, Saigyō heard the wind in the bamboo sounding like wind in the reeds. In a mountain village where the reeds' rustling is rare, the sound of bamboo, heard as though it were the reeds, is graceful too, he finds.
The rustling of reeds was cherished in poetry as the herald of the autumn wind, but reeds are few in the mountains. Hearing the bamboo instead as wind in the reeds, he discovers that it too has its charm.

First line, “take no oto mo”: the sound of wind in the bamboo too; the line has an extra syllable.
Second line, “ogi fuku kaze no”: of the wind blowing through the reeds.
Third line, “sukunaki ni”: where that is seldom heard.
Fourth line, “taguete kikeba”: tagau is to set side by side, to liken; when I hear it likened to the reeds.
Fifth line, “yasashikarikeri”: yasashi is graceful; keri marks discovery.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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