Tsuma kouru shika zo naku naru hitorine no toko no yamakaze mi ni ya shimuramu - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

妻恋ふる鹿ぞ鳴くなるひとり寝の
とこの山風身にやしむらむ

Roma-ji: Tsuma kouru shika zo naku naru hitorine no toko no yamakaze mi ni ya shimuramu
English Translation: Longing for his mate
the stag is crying, I hear;
sleeping all alone,
on Toko's hill, his bed, the wind
must pierce him through and through
Meaning: I hear the stag crying for his mate. Does the mountain wind of Toko, the hill whose name means bed, chill him to the bone as he sleeps alone?
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 222

Hearing the stag cry out for his mate, the poet wonders whether the mountain wind blowing over Toko, the hill whose name means bed, pierces him as he sleeps alone. Overlaying the place name with the sense of a sleeping place, the poem portrays the loneliness of a deer parted from his mate.
From poem 222 through poem 226 in this book come poems on the deer, in which the stag's cry for its mate draws out many feelings, such as the loneliness of travel and of sleeping alone.

First line, 'tsuma kouru', means longing for his mate, the stag calling for a doe in autumn.
Second line, 'shika zo naku naru', is a binding in which zo closes on the attributive naru, the auditory inferential. The poem breaks after the second line.
Third line, 'hitorine no', means of sleeping alone, leading to toko in the fourth line.
Fourth line, 'toko no yamakaze', is a pivot word in which toko is both Toko no Yama, a poetic place in Ōmi, and toko, a bed.
Final line, 'mi ni ya shimuramu', means does it pierce him, the particle ya binding with the conjectural ramu.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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