Sumigama no keburi mo sabishi ōhara ya furinishi sato no yuki no yūgure

炭がまの煙も寂し大原や
ふりにし里の雪の夕暮れ

Roma-ji: Sumigama no keburi mo sabishi ōhara ya furinishi sato no yuki no yūgure
English Translation: From the charcoal kilns
even the smoke is lonely;
at Ōhara,
in the village long grown old,
in the snowy dusk of evening.
Meaning: Even the smoke rising from the charcoal kilns looks lonely—at Ōhara, in the old village, at dusk with the snow falling.
Commentary: Winter Poems 390

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Charcoal kiln"
Even the smoke rising from the charcoal kilns looks lonely, the poet sings of a snowy dusk in the old village of Ōhara. He portrays the loneliness of an evening wrapped in snow at Ōhara, a village known for its charcoal burning.

Line 1 means "of the charcoal kilns." After the two preceding poems, this is the third on charcoal burning.
Line 2 means "even the smoke is lonely," and the poem pauses here.
Line 3 names Ōhara in Yamashiro, known for charcoal burning; ya is an exclamatory particle.
Line 4: furi is a pivot word meaning both "grown old" and the snow "falling."
Line 5 is the same as that of 375, 382, and 383, and the poem ends on a noun.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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