Aware shirite tare ka wakekon yamazato no yuki furiuzumu niwa no yūgure

あはれ知りて誰か分け来ん山里の
雪降り埋む庭の夕暮

Roma-ji: Aware shirite tare ka wakekon yamazato no yuki furiuzumu niwa no yūgure
English Translation: Knowing this beauty,
who would come parting the snow?
In the mountain village,
the garden in snow buried deep
at the falling of the dusk.
Meaning: Who, knowing its beauty, would come parting the snow? The garden of a mountain village, buried under falling snow at dusk.
Commentary: One Hundred Poems 1485

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Ten Poems on Snow"
The third of the ten poems on snow. At dusk, as snow buries the garden of a mountain village, would anyone, knowing its charm, come parting the snow to visit?
It sings of the loneliness of a mountain village shut in by snow and the quiet of a dusk with no visitors. A faint longing for a visitor can be felt; unlike 1459, which would leave no footprints in the snow of blossoms, here he thinks of someone coming through the snow.

First line, “aware shirite”: knowing the poignant charm of things; the line has an extra syllable.
Second line, “tare ka wakekon”: the binding particle ka concludes with n in attributive form, a rhetorical question, "who would come?—no one"; the poem breaks here.
Third line, “yamazato no”: of a village in the mountains.
Fourth line, “yuki furiuzumu”: buried by falling snow.
Fifth line, “niwa no yūgure”: ending on a noun, leaving the lonely dusk of the mountain village as an afterglow.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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