Ōkata no aki o ba tsuki ni tsutsumasete fuki hokorobasu kaze no oto kana

おほかたの秋をば月に包ませて
吹きほころばす風の音かな

Roma-ji: Ōkata no aki o ba tsuki ni tsutsumasete fuki hokorobasu kaze no oto kana
English Translation: All of autumn's charm
has been bundled up within
the moonlight—
yet blowing it loose at the seams,
the sound of the wind is heard.
Meaning: Having let the moon wrap up nearly all of autumn's charm, the sound of the wind blows the bundle open at the seams.
Commentary: One Hundred Poems 1478

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Ten Poems on the Moon"
The sixth of the ten poems on the moon. Most of autumn's charm is wrapped within the moon, while the sound of the wind rings out as though blowing that bundle loose.
The view is that the moon holds almost all of autumn's feeling, while the wind's sound alone spills from the bundle with its own charm. Tsutsumu, to wrap, and hokorobasu, to burst at the seams, are associated words of cloth, binding moon and wind in the image of a wrapped bundle.

First line, “ōkata no”: of the world at large, the greater part.
Second line, “aki o ba tsuki ni”: autumn's charm, to the moon; o ba stresses the object.
Third line, “tsutsumasete”: se is causative, "letting the moon wrap it up."
Fourth line, “fuki hokorobasu”: blowing it open at the seams, associated with tsutsumu in the third line.
Fifth line, “kaze no oto kana”: the sound of the wind; kana marks exclamation.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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