Mugura hau kado wa konoha ni uzumorete hito mo sashikonu ōhara no sato

葎はふ門は木の葉に埋もれて
人もさし来ぬ大原の里

Roma-ji: Mugura hau kado wa konoha ni uzumorete hito mo sashikonu ōhara no sato
English Translation: The gate where weeds crawl
lies buried under the leaves
that have fallen thick—
no one comes this way at all
to the village of Ōhara.
Meaning: The gate overgrown with creeping weeds lies buried under fallen leaves, and no one comes this way to the village of Ōhara.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1216

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Reply"
The ninth of Jakunen's ten. The gate overrun by creeping weeds lies buried in fallen leaves, and no one comes to the village of Ōhara.
A gate tangled with mugura had long been sung as a sign of a ruined dwelling; here leaves pile upon it with no trace of anyone passing. Answering Saigyō's 1200, where only a sumac branch came to call, it sings from Ōhara's side of the solitude of having no visitors.

First line, “mugura hau”: where weeds crawl, a ruined dwelling.
Second line, “kado wa konoha ni”: the gate, in the fallen leaves.
Third line, “uzumorete”: buried.
Fourth line, “hito mo sashikonu”: no one comes; sashi is a prefix.
Fifth line, “ōhara no sato”: ending on a noun, the last line shared by the series.
Author: Jakuzen
Source: Sankashu
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