Kari nakite akikaze samuku narinikeri hitori ya nenamu yoru no koromo usushi

雁鳴きて秋風寒くなりにけり
ひとりや寝なむ夜の衣薄し

Roma-ji: Kari nakite akikaze samuku narinikeri hitori ya nenamu yoru no koromo usushi
English Translation: Wild geese cry aloud,
and the autumn wind has grown
so very cold—
must I go to sleep alone?
My night robes are thin indeed.
Meaning: The wild geese cry, and the autumn wind has turned cold. Must I sleep alone tonight? My night robes are so thin.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 231

Headnote: "Composed on wild geese"
On a night when geese cry and the autumn wind has turned cold, the poet wonders whether he must sleep alone in such thin night robes. He frankly overlays the chill of an autumn night with the loneliness of sleeping alone, in a plain, Man'yō-like cadence.
Kamo no Mabuchi gave it a double circle. In the source text consulted, characters in line 4 are missing and have been supplied from the Teika text's hitori ya nenamu.

Line 1, "the wild geese cry," also opens 299, 301, and 302, repeated as a line announcing autumn's deepening.
Line 2 means "the autumn wind cold."
Line 3: keri expresses realization, and the poem pauses here.
Line 4: ya is an interrogative binding particle concluded by namu, from the perfective nu and the attributive of the conjectural mu, lamenting "must I sleep alone?"; the poem pauses again here. Poem 267 has the same line 4, answering this poem in singing of the cold autumn wind and sleeping alone.
Line 5, "my night robes are thin," is hypermetric and stated outright.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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