Mizuguki no okabe no makuzu kareshi yori mi o akikaze no fukanu hi wa nashi

水茎の岡辺の真葛かれしより
身をあき風の吹かぬ日はなし

Roma-ji: Mizuguki no okabe no makuzu kareshi yori mi o akikaze no fukanu hi wa nashi
English Translation: Since the arrowroot
on the slopes, brush-stem hills,
withered and grew far,
no day without the autumn wind
that tells me I am spurned.
Meaning: Since the arrowroot on the hillside withered and you drew away from me, there has not been a day without an autumn wind, a day I did not feel myself grown wearisome to you.
Commentary: Love Poems 487

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on the theme of love at famous places"
As no day passes without autumn wind since the arrowroot on the hillside withered, so since the beloved drew away there is no day the poet does not grieve at being tired of. Both kare and aki carry double meanings.
This poem was included in the Shokugoshūi Wakashū. The Ruijū text places it in the section of poems found in another manuscript and in printed editions. Kamo no Mabuchi judged mi o akikaze no in line 4 to be in the later style.

Line 1, mizuguki no, is a pillow word for oka, "hill."
Line 2 names the arrowroot on the hillside, whose leaves turn over in the autumn wind and suggest resentment.
Line 3 plays on kare, "wither" and "draw away": since it withered, since you left.
Line 4 plays on aki, "autumn" and "weariness": the autumn wind, being grown wearisome.
Line 5 means "there is no day it does not blow," a double negative stressing every day; its form matches the last line of 451.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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