Kinō koso natsu wa kureshika asatode no koromode samushi aki no hatsukaze

昨日こそ夏は暮れしか朝戸出の
衣手寒し秋の初風

Roma-ji: Kinō koso natsu wa kureshika asatode no koromode samushi aki no hatsukaze
English Translation: Only yesterday
summer came to its close, and yet
stepping out at dawn,
how cold my sleeves have grown—
the first wind of the autumn.
Meaning: Only yesterday summer came to an end, yet as I step out the door this morning my sleeves feel cold—it is the first wind of autumn.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 180

Headnote: "Composed on the morning of the first day of the seventh month"
This poem was composed on the morning of the first day of the seventh month, the start of autumn by the lunar calendar. Summer ended only yesterday, yet the moment the poet steps out the door his sleeves feel cold, and he realizes it is autumn's first wind. He confirms the calendar's turn of season through the chill of the wind on his skin, and the poem opens the autumn section of Minamoto no Sanetomo's Kinkai Wakashū.
This poem was included in the Shinshokukokin Wakashū. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle. The Ruijū text gives the headnote as "On the morning of the first day of the seventh month," and the Teika text gives line 3 as asatoide no. In the source text consulted, a character at the end of line 3 is missing, and no has been supplied from the syllable count, reading asatode no.

Line 1: koso is a binding particle, stressing that it was only yesterday. It takes up poem 174 of Book Two, where the first wind of autumn was felt in a dream on summer's last night, so the end of summer and the start of autumn are joined.
Line 2 concludes koso with shika, the evaluative form of the past auxiliary ki, and continues concessively, "though summer ended." It answers the closing poem of this section, 311, which ends "autumn has come to its close," so the opening and the close echo each other in the word kure, "to end."
Line 3, asatode, means opening the door and going out in the morning.
Line 4: koromode means "sleeves"; the poet states flatly that his sleeves are cold, and the poem pauses here.
Line 5 ends on a noun, naming last the first wind that heralds autumn. The next poems, 181 and 182, end with the same line, so three poems stand together at the head of the section.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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