Kannazuki shigure fururashi okuyama wa toyama no momiji ima sakari nari

神無月時雨降るらし奥山は
外山の紅葉今盛りなり

Roma-ji: Kannazuki shigure fururashi okuyama wa toyama no momiji ima sakari nari
English Translation: In the godless month
showers must be falling now
far in the mountains—
for the maples of the near hills
are at their very height.
Meaning: In the tenth month, showers must be falling deep in the mountains, for the crimson leaves on the near hills are now at their peak.
Commentary: Winter Poems 321

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "From among poems on early winter"
Seeing the crimson leaves on the hills near the village at their height, the poet surmises that showers must be falling in the deep mountains. Resting on the idea that showers dye the leaves, he sets the far mountains against the near hills.

Line 1 is the same as that of the preceding poem; from line 3 of 319, three poems in a row sing the tenth month.
Line 2: rashi is a conjecture based on evidence, and the poem pauses here.
Line 3 names afterward, by inversion, the place where the showers of line 2 are falling.
Line 4 pairs with the deep mountains of line 3, naming the leaves of the hills near the village.
Line 5 declares that the leaves of the near hills are now at their height.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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