Adashino no kuzu no ura fuku akikaze no me ni shi mieneba shiru hito mo nashi

あだし野の葛のうら吹く秋風の
目にし見えねば知る人もなし

Roma-ji: Adashino no kuzu no ura fuku akikaze no me ni shi mieneba shiru hito mo nashi
English Translation: Like the autumn wind
that blows the arrowroot leaves
upturned at Adashino,
unseen by any eye,
my grief is known to none.
Meaning: Like the autumn wind that turns the arrowroot leaves at Adashino, my grief cannot be seen, and so no one knows of it.
Commentary: Love Poems 524

Headnote: "Love, on the wind"
As the autumn wind that turns over the arrowroot leaves at Adashino cannot be seen, so the resentment of love within cannot be seen, and no one knows of it.
According to the notes in the base text, the Ruijū text differs in line 2. Here the base text is followed.

Line 1 means "of Adashino," a poetic place in Yamashiro.
Line 2 means "blowing the undersides of the arrowroot," ura meaning both underside and heart, suggesting resentment.
Line 3 means "like the autumn wind," leading to "unseen."
Line 4 means "since it cannot be seen," shi being intensive.
Line 5 means "no one knows." It takes up the arrowroot leaves and fickle wind of 516, focusing here on the wind's invisibility.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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