Fuku kaze no suzushiku mo aru ka onozukara yama no semi nakite aki wa kinikeri

吹く風の涼しくもあるかおのづから
山の蝉鳴きて秋は来にけり

Roma-ji: Fuku kaze no suzushiku mo aru ka onozukara yama no semi nakite aki wa kinikeri
English Translation: How cool it is now,
the wind that comes blowing by!
Of their own accord
the cicadas in the hills sing,
and autumn has come at last.
Meaning: How cool the blowing wind is! Of their own accord the mountain cicadas sing, and autumn has come.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 189

Headnote: "On hearing the cicadas sing"
Struck by the coolness of the blowing wind and hearing the mountain cicadas begin to sing of their own accord, the poet knows that autumn has come. In a strong, Man'yō-like cadence, he sings of the certainty of a season that comes round regardless of human wishes.
The Ruijū text gives the headnote as "Cold cicadas sing," and the Ruijū and Teika texts differ in line 1. Kamo no Mabuchi gave it a double circle. In the source text consulted, a character at the end of line 1 is missing and has been supplied from the Teika text's fuku kaze no.

Line 1 means "of the wind that blows."
Line 2, "how cool it is," with ka expressing exclamation, is hypermetric; the poem pauses here, taking up "it has turned cool" in the preceding poem, 188.
Line 3, onozukara, means "of their own accord, naturally," showing the season coming round regardless of human thought.
Line 4, "the mountain cicadas sing," is hypermetric. It takes up the higurashi of the preceding poem, singing of the cicadas of the headnote.
Line 5 is the same last line as 185 and 186, with keri expressing realization.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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