Hitori nuru nezame ni kiku zo aware naru fushimi no sato ni koromo utsu koe

ひとり寝る寝覚めに聞くぞあはれなる
ふしみの里に衣打つ声

Roma-ji: Hitori nuru nezame ni kiku zo aware naru fushimi no sato ni koromo utsu koe
English Translation: As I lie alone
waking in the night, I hear
such a moving sound—
in the village of Fushimi
someone's beating cloth.
Meaning: How moving it is to hear, waking in the night as I sleep alone—the sound of cloth being beaten in the village of Fushimi.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 291

Headnote: "Composed on beating cloth"
Waking in the night as he sleeps alone, the poet is deeply moved by the sound of the fulling block drifting from the village of Fushimi. He lends deep pathos to the sound of beaten cloth heard in the loneliness of sleeping alone.

Line 1 means "sleeping alone." Following "must I sleep alone" in 231 and 267, it sings of a night of solitary sleep.
Line 2: zo is a binding particle, stressing what is heard on waking. It takes up "when I wake and listen" in 289.
Line 3, aware naru, is the attributive concluding zo, "so moving," and the poem pauses here.
Line 4: fushimi is a pivot word meaning both the place Fushimi in Yamashiro and fushi, "lying down," echoing the solitary sleep of line 1.
Line 5 ends on a noun, giving last, through inversion, the fulling block's sound that stirs pathos. This line closes the five poems on beating cloth.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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