Yū sareba kadota no inaba otozurete ashi no maroya ni akikaze zo fuku - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

夕されば門田の稲葉おとづれて
葦のまろやに秋風ぞ吹く

Roma-ji: Yū sareba kadota no inaba otozurete ashi no maroya ni akikaze zo fuku
English Translation: When evening falls,
the rice leaves of the gate fields
rustle at its call,
and to the hut thatched with reeds
the autumn wind comes blowing
Meaning: As evening comes, the autumn wind rustles through the rice leaves in the field before the gate and blows into my hut thatched with reeds.
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 173

As evening falls, the autumn wind comes rustling through the rice leaves in the field before the gate and blows into a humble hut thatched with reeds. Through the sound of the leaves and the wind entering the hut, the poem paints both the loneliness and the freshness of an autumn evening in the countryside.
It is the author's representative poem, chosen for the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, and is celebrated for its fresh depiction of a rural scene. Like poem 171, two poems earlier, it senses autumn through the wind over the rice leaves. With this poem the sequence on autumn's arrival ends, and moon poems follow from the next poem.
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.
The author, Tsunenobu, is Minamoto no Tsunenobu. A son of Minamoto no Michikata, he rose to Major Counselor and was called the Katsura Counselor. In his last years he died at his post as Provisional Governor-General of Dazaifu. He was the father of the compiler, Minamoto no Toshiyori.

First line, 'yū sareba', means when evening comes, saru meaning for a time to arrive.
Second line, 'kadota no inaba', uses kadota, the field before a house's gate; 'the rice of the gate field' also appears in poem 215 in this book.
Third line, 'otozurete', uses otozuru in its double sense of making a sound and of visiting, overlapping the rustling of the rice leaves with the arrival of the autumn wind.
Fourth line, 'ashi no maroya ni', uses maroya, a humble hut roofed with reeds.
Final line, 'akikaze zo fuku', is a binding in which zo closes on the attributive fuku, stressing the blowing of the autumn wind.
Author: Minamoto no Tsunenobu
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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