Yoshinogawa momijiba nagaru taki no ue no mifune no yama ni arashi fukurashi

吉野川紅葉葉流る滝の上の
御船の山に嵐吹くらし

Roma-ji: Yoshinogawa momijiba nagaru taki no ue no mifune no yama ni arashi fukurashi
English Translation: Down the Yoshino
the crimson leaves come flowing;
on the falls' far side
on the Mountain of Mifune
a storm must be blowing now.
Meaning: Crimson leaves come drifting down the Yoshino River; on Mount Mifune above the falls, a storm must be blowing.
Commentary: Winter Poems 317

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "From among poems on early winter"
Seeing crimson leaves drifting down the Yoshino River, the poet surmises that a storm must be blowing on Mount Mifune above the falls upstream. From the flowing leaves before his eyes, he imagines the unseen storm in the mountains.
Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle. The poem shares the structure of an anonymous Kokin Wakashū poem in which leaves flowing down the Tatsuta River tell of autumn showers on Mount Mimuro, here moved to Yoshino. "Mount Mifune above the falls" is also a phrase found in the Man'yōshū.

Line 1 names the Yoshino River flowing through Yoshino in Yamato, a poetic place.
Line 2 means "crimson leaves come flowing," and the poem pauses here.
Line 3 refers to the area of the Miyataki falls on the Yoshino River.
Line 4 names Mount Mifune near Miyataki in Yoshino.
Line 5: rashi is a conjecture based on evidence, inferring the mountain storm from the flowing leaves. Poems 319 and 321 also use rashi, so poems that imagine the unseen from the scene at hand follow one another.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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