Ware nomi ya wabishi to wa omou hanasusuki ho ni izuru yado no aki no yūgure

我のみやわびしとは思ふ花薄
ほに出づる宿の秋の夕暮

Roma-ji: Ware nomi ya wabishi to wa omou hanasusuki ho ni izuru yado no aki no yūgure
English Translation: Is it I alone
who feel this lonely sorrow?
Where the plumed pampas
puts out plumes, my heart shows too—
at my house on autumn's eve.
Meaning: Am I the only one who feels so forlorn? At my house, where the pampas grass puts forth its plumes and my heart shows through, on this autumn evening.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 213

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on the spirit of evening"
The poet wonders whether he alone feels forlorn on an autumn evening at a house where the pampas grass has put out its plumes. Overlaying the emerging plumes with a lonely heart that cannot help but show itself, he portrays the loneliness of the autumn dusk.
The Ruijū text gives line 2 as wabishi to omou. According to the source's note, line 2 read differently in the Jōkyō text and the editor emended it following a marginal gloss; this edition follows that emendation.

Line 1: ya is an interrogative binding particle, asking "is it I alone?"
Line 2 is hypermetric and concludes ya with the attributive omou; the poem pauses here.
Line 3, hanasusuki, is pampas grass in plume.
Line 4: ho is a pivot word meaning both the plumes of the pampas grass and feelings showing outwardly.
Line 5 ends on a noun. Like the preceding poem, 212, it sings of brooding at evening, and the same last line recurs in 245, 262, 263, and 264.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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