Aware nari yoriyori shiranu no no sue ni kasegi o tomo ni naruru sumika wa

あはれなりよりより知らぬ野の末に
鹿を友に馴るる住みかは

Roma-ji: Aware nari yoriyori shiranu no no sue ni kasegi o tomo ni naruru sumika wa
English Translation: How full of sorrow—
at the edge of the moors that
no one knows at all,
with the deer as my close friends,
this dwelling where I live.
Meaning: How moving it is: a dwelling at the far edge of the moors, unknown to anyone even now and then, where I have grown close to the deer as my friends.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1149

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
How moving it is, the poet says: a dwelling at the far edge of the moors, unknown to anyone even from time to time, where he lives in familiar friendship with the deer.
Following the preceding poem's hut visited only by the wind, this one sings of a dwelling on the moors with only the deer for friends. The loneliness of having no human visitors and the intimate fellowship with wild creatures are drawn together.

First line, “aware nari”: how moving, a declaration that breaks after the first line.
Second line, “yoriyori shiranu”: yoriyori means "now and then"; unknown even occasionally.
Third line, “no no sue ni”: at the far edge of the moors.
Fourth line, “kasegi o tomo ni”: kasegi, written in the text, is an old word for deer.
Fifth line, “naruru sumika wa”: the dwelling where one grows familiar, the inversion naming what is moving.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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