Koe takami hayashi ni sakebu saru yori mo ware zo mono omou aki no yūbe wa

声高み林に叫ぶ猿よりも
我ぞもの思ふ秋の夕べは

Roma-ji: Koe takami hayashi ni sakebu saru yori mo ware zo mono omou aki no yūbe wa
English Translation: More than the monkeys
crying shrill within the woods,
their voices high,
it is I who brood and grieve
on the evening of the autumn.
Meaning: More than the monkeys shrieking in the woods with their high voices, it is I who am lost in brooding on an autumn evening.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 258

Headnote: "On the theme 'Gazing out from the mountainside'"
This poem was composed on the theme of the view from a mountainside. The cries of monkeys shrieking in the woods were held to stir sorrow, yet the poet says that he broods more deeply than those monkeys, strongly expressing the loneliness of an autumn evening.
Kamo no Mabuchi commented that line 1 should read koe takaku. Treating the monkey's cry as sorrowful seems to be learned from an expression often found in Chinese poetry.

Line 1, koe takami, means "since their voices are high," formed with mi on an adjective stem.
Line 2 means "shrieking in the woods."
Line 3: yori mo marks a comparison between the monkeys and the poet himself.
Line 4 concludes the binding particle zo with the attributive omou, and the poem pauses here.
Line 5 gives the time last through inversion. Three poems from here through 260 fall under the theme "Gazing out from the mountainside," singing of evening on the mountainside.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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