Mare ni kite mare ni yado karu hito mo araji aware to omoe niwa no matsukaze

稀に来て稀に宿借る人もあらじ
あはれと思へ庭の松風

Roma-ji: Mare ni kite mare ni yado karu hito mo araji aware to omoe niwa no matsukaze
English Translation: Coming here but rarely,
rarely lodging for a night,
no one else will come;
think of me with tenderness,
O wind through the garden pines.
Meaning: There can be no one else who comes so rarely and so rarely takes lodging here; think of me with tenderness, wind in the garden pines.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 588

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on a folding-screen painting of many travellers at a mountain dwelling with pines"
No one else would happen to come and lodge at such a mountain house, so the poet calls on the wind in the garden pines to feel for him. Taking up the sadness of the wind in the preceding poem, the traveller and the wind share their loneliness.
The Ruijū text places it in its travel section. Its form of address recalls Gyōson's Hyakunin Isshu poem asking the mountain cherry to feel for him, since none but it knows him.

Line 1 is the same opening as the preceding poem.
Line 2 means "rarely taking lodging," repeating mare ni to stress the rarity.
Line 3 means "there will be no one," with a break after the line.
Line 4 means "think of me with pity," an imperative calling on the wind.
Line 5, the same as in the preceding poem, names the one addressed, ending on a noun.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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