Shiguretsutsu katsu chiru yama no momijiba o ika ni fuku yo no arashi naruramu - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

時雨つつかつ散る山の紅葉葉を
いかに吹く夜の嵐なるらむ

Roma-ji: Shiguretsutsu katsu chiru yama no momijiba o ika ni fuku yo no arashi naruramu
English Translation: With the winter showers,
even as they fall away,
the mountain's red leaves:
how must it be blowing on them,
this storm wind of the night
Meaning: Even as the showers keep coloring them, the mountain's red leaves are falling; how, I wonder, is the night storm blowing upon them?
Commentary: Book Four Winter Poems 258

Each shower deepens the color of the leaves, yet at the same time they fall. The poet wonders how the unseen storm of the night is blowing on the mountain's leaves, pairing the showers that dye with the storm that scatters and imagining the mountain in the dark.
Taking up the leaves glowing in the showers in the preceding poem, 257, this poem sings of leaves falling amid the showers.
From poem 257 through poem 266 in this book come poems on the sights of early winter, such as showers and colored leaves.
The author, Akisue, is Fujiwara no Akisue. A son of Fujiwara no Takatsune, he was trusted as a close retainer of Emperor Shirakawa because his mother had been the emperor's wet nurse, and he rose to Master of the Office of Palace Repairs. He founded the Rokujō Fujiwara house of poetry.

First line, 'shiguretsutsu', means as the showers keep falling, the conjunctive tsutsu expressing repetition. It takes up 'as the winter showers fall' in the preceding poem.
Second line, 'katsu chiru yama no', uses katsu, at the same time, showing leaves that color in the showers and yet fall.
Third line, 'momijiba o', means the colored leaves.
Fourth line, 'ika ni fuku yo no', means how is it blowing in the night, imagining the unseen storm.
Final line, 'arashi naruramu', means is it the storm, I wonder, closing with the present conjecture ramu.
Author: Fujiwara no Akisue
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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