Onozukara sabishiku mo aru ka yama fukami kusa no iori no yuki no yūgure

おのづから寂しくもあるか山深み
草の庵の雪の夕暮れ

Roma-ji: Onozukara sabishiku mo aru ka yama fukami kusa no iori no yuki no yūgure
English Translation: Of itself it seems
so lonely and so forlorn—
the hills are so deep—
at my hut of grass and thatch
in the snowy dusk of evening.
Meaning: How lonely it feels of itself—so deep are the mountains—at my grass hut in the snowy dusk.
Commentary: Winter Poems 375

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Snow"
Because the mountains are so deep, the snowy dusk at his grass hut feels lonely of itself, the poet sings. He layers things that call up loneliness: a hut deep in the mountains, snow, and evening.
The Ruijū and Teika texts give line 4 as koke no iori no, "of the moss hut."

Line 1 means "of itself, naturally."
Line 2: ka is exclamatory, and the poem pauses here. It is the same as line 2 of 367.
Line 3 uses mi to show cause, "because the mountains are deep."
Line 4 is a humble dwelling built of grass, taking up "my hut" in the preceding poem.
Line 5 ends on a noun, giving last the hour when loneliness is deepest. Poems 382, 383, and 390 end with the same line.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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