Akikaze ni yama tobikoyuru hatsukari no tsubasa ni wakuru mine no shirakumo

秋風に山飛び越ゆる初雁の
翼に分くる峰の白雲

Roma-ji: Akikaze ni yama tobikoyuru hatsukari no tsubasa ni wakuru mine no shirakumo
English Translation: In the autumn wind
soaring over mountain peaks,
the first wild geese come,
and their wings now part in two
the white clouds upon the ridge.
Meaning: Riding the autumn wind over the mountains, the first wild geese part with their wings the white clouds on the peaks.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 232

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on wild geese"
The first geese of autumn, riding the wind over the mountains, part with their wings the white clouds hanging on the peaks. The poet portrays the powerful flight of the first geese arriving from the north together with a majestic mountain scene.

Line 1 means "riding the autumn wind."
Line 2 means "flying over the mountains." The next poem, 233, has the same line 2, so the two stand side by side on geese crossing mountains.
Line 3, hatsukari, are the first geese to arrive that autumn.
Line 4, "parting with their wings," like the geese parting the high clouds in 226, depicts geese making their way through cloud.
Line 5 ends on a noun, giving last the clouds the geese part.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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