Kakute nao taeteshi araba ikaga semu yamada moru io no aki no yūgure

かくてなほ堪へてしあらばいかがせむ
山田守る庵の秋の夕暮

Roma-ji: Kakute nao taeteshi araba ikaga semu yamada moru io no aki no yūgure
English Translation: If I go on thus,
bearing it as I have borne,
what am I to do?
In the hut that guards the fields,
the evening of the autumn.
Meaning: If I must go on enduring like this, what am I to do—in the hut that guards the mountain fields, on this autumn evening?
Commentary: Autumn Poems 262

Headnote: "Autumn evening at a farmhouse"
The poet wonders what he is to do if he must go on enduring like this, voicing the hardship of an autumn evening in a hut guarding the mountain paddies. Through words of lament, he strongly expresses the near-unbearable solitude of dusk at a farmhouse.
The Ruijū text gives the headnote as "Evening at a farmhouse," and the Ruijū and Teika texts differ in line 2. Kamo no Mabuchi commented that compressing phrases into "spring dawn" and "autumn dusk" and pouring oneself into lamenting their sorrow is the work of later poets; that the poet loved antiquity but could not yet discern this; and that perhaps it was because these were still early poems.

Line 1 means "thus, still."
Line 2 means "if I go on enduring like this," with shi an emphatic particle.
Line 3 means "what shall I do?", and the poem pauses here.
Line 4 is hypermetric and is the same phrase as "the hut guarding the mountain paddies" in 246.
Line 5 ends on a noun, the same last line as 213 and 245. The next poems, 263 and 264, also end with it, so poems on the autumn evening continue.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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