Kari nakite fuku kaze samumi takamado no nobe no asaji wa irozukinikeri

雁鳴きて吹く風寒み高円の
野辺の浅茅は色づきにけり

Roma-ji: Kari nakite fuku kaze samumi takamado no nobe no asaji wa irozukinikeri
English Translation: Wild geese cry aloud,
and the blowing wind's so cold
that at Takamado
on the moor the cogon grass
has taken on its hue.
Meaning: The wild geese cry and the wind blows cold, and the cogon grass on the moor of Takamado has taken on autumn color.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 301

Headnote: "Composed at the end of autumn"
At the end of autumn, because the geese cry and the wind blows cold, the low cogon grass on the moor of Takamado has taken on color. Following the autumn leaves of the mountains, the poet captures a late-autumn scene in which even the low grasses of the fields change color.
Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle.

Line 1 shares its opening with 299, and the next poem, 302, opens the same way, so three poems begin with the cry of geese.
Line 2 means "since the blowing wind is cold," with mi on an adjective stem giving the reason.
Line 3 names Mount Takamado in Yamato, the same place as "the palace on the heights of Takamado" in 182. At Takamado, where the first wind of autumn blew at the start of the section, the cogon grass of the moor now takes on color, so autumn's beginning and end answer each other at the same place.
Line 4 names the low cogon grass growing in the fields. Against the leaves of the mountains in the two preceding poems, this one sings of the grasses of the moor taking on color.
Line 5 is the same last line as 298 and 299, with keri expressing realization.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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