Sazanami ya hira no yamakaze sayo fukete tsukikage sabishi shiga no karasaki

さざ波や比良の山風さ夜更けて
月影寂し志賀の唐崎

Roma-ji: Sazanami ya hira no yamakaze sayo fukete tsukikage sabishi shiga no karasaki
English Translation: Rippling waves, ah!
from Hira the mountain wind—
as the night grows late,
how lonely is the moonlight
on Karasaki of Shiga.
Meaning: Rippling waves! In the mountain wind from Hira the night grows late, and the moonlight lies lonely on Karasaki of Shiga.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 283

Headnote: "The autumn moon at famous places"
As the night grows late in the wind blowing down from Mount Hira in Ōmi, the moonlight lies lonely on Karasaki of Shiga. Setting the poem at a famous site on the shore of Lake Biwa, the poet portrays the desolation of an autumn night woven by mountain wind and moonlight.
Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle and, together with the next poem, commented that it omits every contrivance a commonplace poet might think of and ends with a plain, unadorned statement. The Teika text differs in line 4.

Line 1, sazanami ya, is a pillow word for place names along Lake Biwa in Ōmi, with ya an exclamatory particle.
Line 2 refers to the wind blowing down from Mount Hira on the western shore of Lake Biwa.
Line 3: sa is a prefix, "the night grows late"; it is the same word as in 238 and others.
Line 4, "the moonlight is lonely," is stated outright, and the poem pauses here.
Line 5 ends on a noun, giving last the famous place on the western shore of Lake Biwa. Three poems from here through 285 fall under the topic "The autumn moon at famous places," singing of moons in Ōmi and Shinano.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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