Kari no iru kadota no inaba uchisoyogi tasogaredoki ni akikaze zo fuku

雁のゐる門田の稲葉うちそよぎ
たそがれ時に秋風ぞ吹く

Roma-ji: Kari no iru kadota no inaba uchisoyogi tasogaredoki ni akikaze zo fuku
English Translation: Where the wild geese rest,
in the fields before the gate
the rice leaves rustle,
and in the twilight hour
the wind of autumn blows.
Meaning: In the paddies before the gate where the geese have settled, the rice leaves rustle, and at twilight the autumn wind blows.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 224

Headnote: "Geese at evening by a farmhouse"
The rice leaves rustle in the paddies before the gate where geese have settled, and at twilight the autumn wind blows. The poet portrays the quiet evening scene of a country house through geese, rice leaves, and wind.
Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle. The poem recalls Minamoto no Tsunenobu's Kin'yō Wakashū poem in which, at evening, the wind visits the rice leaves of the paddies before the gate and blows on to a reed-thatched hut. In the source text consulted, a character at the end of line 2 is missing, and it has been read as inaba from the syllable count and the flow of the words.

Line 1 describes geese settled in the paddies.
Line 2, kadota no inaba, the rice leaves of the paddy before the gate, presents the "farmhouse" of the topic, taking up "the rice leaves bend" of the preceding poem, 223.
Line 3: uchi is a prefix, describing the rice leaves stirring in the wind.
Line 4, "at twilight," presents the "evening" of the topic; like "at twilight" opening 212, it shows the loneliness of dusk.
Line 5 concludes the binding particle zo with the attributive fuku, the same last line as 212. The geese flying in the sky in the preceding poem are here settled in the fields, so sky and ground form a pair.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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