Miyoshino no yamashitakaze no samuki yo o tare furusato ni koromo utsuramu

み吉野の山下風の寒き夜を
誰ふるさとに衣打つらむ

Roma-ji: Miyoshino no yamashitakaze no samuki yo o tare furusato ni koromo utsuramu
English Translation: Fair Yoshino's
wind blowing down the mountain
on this freezing night—
who is it, in the old village,
that is beating at the cloth?
Meaning: On this night chilled by the wind blowing down from the mountains of Yoshino, who could be beating cloth in the old village?
Commentary: Autumn Poems 290

Headnote: "Beating cloth at an old village"
On a night chilled by the wind blowing down from the mountains of Yoshino, the poet wonders who could be beating cloth in Yoshino, the old village where a detached palace once stood. In the sound of the fulling block ringing through the cold wind, he imagines the lonely life of someone left behind in the old village.
The Ruijū and Teika texts differ in line 4. Like Fujiwara no Masatsune's Shin Kokin Wakashū poem in which, as night deepens in the autumn wind of the Yoshino hills, cloth is beaten in the cold old village, this poem sings of the fulling block in the old village of Yoshino. In the source text consulted, a character in line 4 is missing and has been supplied from the Teika text's tare furusato ni.

Line 1: mi is a prefix, naming Yoshino in Yamato, where a detached palace once stood and which was sung as an old village.
Line 2 means "of the wind blowing down from the mountain."
Line 3 means "on a cold night."
Line 4 asks "who, in the old village?", presenting the "old village" of the topic.
Line 5: the present conjectural ramu wonders whether someone is beating cloth. It is the same last line as 288; there the poet surmised the heart of the one beating, here who that person might be.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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