Karagoromo suso awanu tsuma ni fuku kaze no me ni koso miene mi ni wa shimikeri

唐衣裾合はぬつまに吹く風の
目にこそ見えね身には染みけり

Roma-ji: Karagoromo suso awanu tsuma ni fuku kaze no me ni koso miene mi ni wa shimikeri
English Translation: Like the wind that blows
through the skirts of a Chinese robe
whose hems never meet,
though no eye can see it,
it pierces to the bone.
Meaning: Like the wind blowing in at the unmeeting hems of a Chinese robe, the pain of not meeting cannot be seen, yet it pierces me to the bone.
Commentary: Love Poems 525

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Love, on the wind"
As the wind blowing in at the hems of a Chinese robe that do not meet is unseen yet chills the body, so the pain of longing for one who does not meet him is unseen yet pierces him. Taking up "since it cannot be seen" from the preceding poem, it turns the invisible wind into something felt.
According to the notes in the base text, this is one of two poems found only in the Jōkyō text and not in the Ruijū text.

Line 1 means "a Chinese robe."
Line 2 means "at the unmeeting front edges," tsuma meaning both the robe's edge and spouse, suggesting the one not met; the same conceit as "the hem not meeting" in 512.
Line 3 means "like the wind that blows."
Line 4: koso is concluded by the evaluative miene, turning adversative; like line 4 of the preceding poem, it speaks of unseen wind.
Line 5 means "yet it pierces the body," keri exclamatory.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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