No to narite ato wa taenishi fukakusa no tsuyu no yadori ni aki wa kinikeri

野となりて跡は絶えにし深草の
露の宿りに秋は来にけり

Roma-ji: No to narite ato wa taenishi fukakusa no tsuyu no yadori ni aki wa kinikeri
English Translation: Turned to open field,
with every trace now vanished,
Fukakusa's
dwelling place of dew—even here
autumn has come at last.
Meaning: Even to Fukakusa, gone back to open field with every trace of people vanished, to this dwelling of the dew, autumn has come.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 185

Headnote: "A poem of early autumn"
Autumn has come even to the dew-soaked dwellings of Fukakusa, a village gone to ruin and turned back to open field, where no visitor's trace remains. The poet portrays an autumn that arrives unchanged at a deserted village, capturing a scene of early autumn suffused with loneliness.
The Ruijū text gives the headnote as "A poem at the beginning of autumn." The pairing of "turned to open field" with Fukakusa draws on the exchange in episode 123 of The Tales of Ise, also in the miscellaneous section of the Kokin Wakashū, in which a woman of Fukakusa answers that if the village turns to field, she will become a quail and cry there.

Line 1, "turned to open field," means the village has gone to ruin and become a meadow, taking up the words of the Fukakusa woman's poem in The Tales of Ise.
Line 2 means "where traces of visitors have vanished," with shi the attributive of the past auxiliary ki.
Line 3, Fukakusa, a place in Yamashiro, carries the overtone of "deep grass."
Line 4 means "a dwelling where only dew lodges."
Line 5 is the same as line 2 of the preceding poem, 184, and the next poem, 186, ends with the same line. The two poems set side by side the theme of autumn visiting a house where no one lives.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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