Kiri tachite aki koso sora ni kinikerashi fukiage no hama no ura no shiokaze

霧立ちて秋こそ空に来にけらし
吹上の浜の浦の潮風

Roma-ji: Kiri tachite aki koso sora ni kinikerashi fukiage no hama no ura no shiokaze
English Translation: Mists have risen up—
autumn, it seems, has come first
to the open sky:
on the beach of Fukiage,
the salt wind across the bay.
Meaning: Mists have risen—it seems autumn has come first to the sky; along the beach of Fukiage blows the salt wind off the bay.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 183

Headnote: "Autumn comes to the seashore"
At Fukiage Beach, a poetic site in Kii, the poet sees mist rising and feels the salt wind, and senses that autumn has come first to the sky. Through the wide sky and the wind of the shore, he grasps autumn's arrival on a grand scale.
The Ruijū text gives the headnote as "On the theme 'Autumn comes to the seashore.'" Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle. In the source text consulted, a character at the start of line 3 is missing and has been supplied from the Teika text's kinikerashi.

Line 1, "mists have risen," shows a sign of autumn's coming.
Line 2: koso is a binding particle, stressing that autumn has come first to the sky.
Line 3, kinikerashi, a contraction of kinikerurashi, infers that autumn "seems to have come"; the inferential rashi concludes koso in its evaluative form, and the poem pauses here. Phrases like "autumn has come" recur in 184, 185, 186, and 189, confirming autumn's arrival again and again.
Line 4 names Fukiage Beach in Kii, and is hypermetric.
Line 5 ends on a noun, giving last the wind off the shore. The "first wind of autumn" from the head of the section here turns into a salt wind by the sea.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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