Karigane wa tomo madowaseri shigaraki ya maki no somayama kiri tataru rashi

雁がねは友まどはせり信楽や
真木の杣山霧立たるらし

Roma-ji: Karigane wa tomo madowaseri shigaraki ya maki no somayama kiri tataru rashi
English Translation: The wild geese have lost
their companions on the way—
at Shigaraki,
on the timber hills of cedar,
mists must be rising thick.
Meaning: The geese have lost their companions—on the cedar-covered timber hills of Shigaraki, the mist must be rising.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 234

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on wild geese"
Hearing geese that have lost their companions, the poet infers that thick mist must be rising on the timber hills of Shigaraki. In the voices of geese calling to one another in the mist, he senses how dense the mountain fog has grown.
Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle.

Line 1 means "the geese."
Line 2 means "have lost their companions," with ri the resultative auxiliary; the poem pauses here.
Line 3: ya is an exclamatory particle, naming Shigaraki, a place in Ōmi.
Line 4 refers to timber hills thick with cedar and cypress, from which lumber is cut.
Line 5: rashi is a grounded inference, judging from the lost companions that mist must be rising. The many layers of mist the geese braved in the preceding poem, 233, here become the mist that leads the geese astray.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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