Tamadare no kosu no hima moru akikaze wa imo koishira ni mi ni zo shimikeru

玉垂れの小簾のひま漏る秋風は
妹恋ひしらに身にぞしみける

Roma-ji: Tamadare no kosu no hima moru akikaze wa imo koishira ni mi ni zo shimikeru
English Translation: Through the beaded blinds
slipping in between the gaps,
the wind of autumn,
for the longing for my love,
pierces deep into my flesh.
Meaning: The autumn wind slipping in through the gaps of the beaded blinds pierces me to the bone, for I long so for my love.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 266

Headnote: "Autumn poems"
The poet sings that the autumn wind slipping in through gaps in the blinds pierces deeply into one who longs for his beloved. He overlays the chill of the wind stealing into the room with longing for someone far away.
The poem recalls the Man'yōshū poem in which, as a woman waits longing for her lord, the autumn wind stirs the blinds of her house, overlaying the waiting heart with wind that moves the blinds. In the source text consulted, line 3 and the last line show missing characters and variants; line 3 has been supplied from the Teika text's akikaze wa, and for the last line, which appears alongside the variant shimitsuru, shimikeru, the same as the Teika text, has been followed. The Ruijū text differs in line 3.

Line 1, tamadare no, "of beaded hangings," is a pillow word for "blinds."
Line 2 means "slipping in through the gaps of the blinds." Poem 173 of Book Two also sings of wind passing through the gaps of jewelled blinds; the breeze through the blinds that told of autumn's approach at the end of summer becomes here an autumn wind that deepens longing.
Line 3 refers to the autumn wind blowing in through the blinds.
Line 4 means "since I long so for my beloved."
Line 5 concludes the binding particle zo with the attributive keru, exclaiming that the wind pierces him.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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