Yū sareba inaba no nabiku akikaze ni sora tobu kari no koe mo kanashi ya

夕されば稲葉のなびく秋風に
空飛ぶ雁の声も悲しや

Roma-ji: Yū sareba inaba no nabiku akikaze ni sora tobu kari no koe mo kanashi ya
English Translation: When the evening comes,
in the autumn wind that bends
the leaves of the rice,
how the wild geese crossing the sky
cry out in voices full of grief.
Meaning: When evening comes, in the autumn wind that bends the rice leaves, even the cries of the geese crossing the sky sound sorrowful.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 223

Headnote: "Geese at evening"
At evening, in the autumn wind that bends the rice leaves, even the cries of the geese flying across the sky sound sad. Gathering the swaying rice below and the voices of the geese above into one scene, the poet portrays the loneliness of an autumn dusk.
Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle.

Line 1 shares its opening with 182 and 214, presenting the "evening" of the topic.
Line 2 describes the leaves of ripened rice bending in the wind, showing an autumn scene of spreading paddies.
Line 3 means "in the autumn wind."
Line 4 is the same as line 2 of the preceding poem, 222; the geese imagined there as shedding tears are caught here through their voices.
Line 5: mo adds "even the geese's voices, on top of the wind's loneliness," and ya expresses exclamation.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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