Yama fukami tou hito mo naki yado naredo sotomo no oda ni aki wa kinikeri - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

山深み訪ふ人もなき宿なれど
外面の小田に秋は来にけり

Roma-ji: Yama fukami tou hito mo naki yado naredo sotomo no oda ni aki wa kinikeri
English Translation: The mountains so deep
that no one comes to visit
this house where I dwell,
yet to the fields outside
autumn has come, I find
Meaning: The mountains are so deep that no one comes to visit my house, yet autumn has come to the rice fields outside.
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 172

Deep in the mountains, no one comes to visit the house, yet autumn has surely arrived in the fields outside. The contrast between the absence of visitors and the arrival of autumn expresses both the loneliness of a mountain home and the certainty of the season.
Like poem 170 in this book, it sings of autumn coming to a mountain house, and its final line, 'autumn has come', is the same phrase as the second line of poem 170.
From poem 168 through poem 173 in this book come poems that recognize the arrival of autumn in the maiden flower, the wind over the rice leaves and the scenes of mountain villages.

First line, 'yama fukami', means because the mountains are deep, mi being a suffix of cause.
Second line, 'tou hito mo naki', means with no one to visit.
Third line, 'yado naredo', means though it is a house, a concession setting the lack of visitors against the arrival of autumn.
Fourth line, 'sotomo no oda ni', uses sotomo, outside or behind the house, and oda, a rice field.
Final line, 'aki wa kinikeri', means autumn has come, the same phrase as the second line of poem 170 in this book.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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