Kono sato ya saga no mikari no ato naran noyama mo hate wa asekawarikeri

この里や嵯峨の御狩の跡ならん
野山も果てはあせ変はりけり

Roma-ji: Kono sato ya saga no mikari no ato naran noyama mo hate wa asekawarikeri
English Translation: This village here—
might it be the site of hunts
held in Saga long ago?
Even the hills and fields at last
have faded and are changed.
Meaning: Could this village be the site of the imperial hunts of Saga? Even fields and hills, in the end, fade and change.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1423

Headnote: "Seeing that Sagano had changed from what I had seen before, become unrecognizable, and that people were about to leave"
Seeing Sagano so changed from what he knew and its people about to leave, Saigyō composed this. Could this village be the site of the imperial hunts of Saga? Even fields and hills in the end decline and change.
Sagano was once an imperial hunting ground with a splendid history. Not only human life but nature itself, fields and hills, changes, and he feels impermanence deeply. Poems of remembrance on Daikakuji in Saga follow.

First line, “kono sato ya”: ya questions, "this village."
Second line, “saga no mikari no”: of the imperial hunts at Saga.
Third line, “ato naran”: n is conjectural, "might it be the site?"; the poem breaks here.
Fourth line, “noyama mo hate wa”: even fields and hills, in the end.
Fifth line, “asekawarikeri”: asu is to fade, decline; keri is exclamatory.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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