Kazouru ni nokori sukunaki mi ni shi areba semete mo oshiki toshi no kure kana - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

数ふるに残り少なき身にしあれば
せめても惜しき年の暮かな

Roma-ji: Kazouru ni nokori sukunaki mi ni shi areba semete mo oshiki toshi no kure kana
English Translation: When I count them up,
the years that remain are few
for one such as I,
and so it is keenly mourned,
this closing of the year
Meaning: When I count, I see that I have few years left, and so the end of this year is all the more painful to let go.
Commentary: Book Four Winter Poems 301

Counting the years, the poet sees that few remain, and so the end of the year feels all the more precious. Onto regret for the year's end the poem lays a lament for the little life left to one grown old.
Where the two poems before it mourned the year in relation to spring, this one mourns it out of the poet's own old age.
From poem 299 through poem 304 in this book come poems lamenting the year's end, bringing the winter book to a close.

First line, 'kazouru ni', means when I count, reckoning age and remaining years.
Second line, 'nokori sukunaki', means with few remaining, showing how short the life left is.
Third line, 'mi ni shi areba', means since I am one who, with the emphatic shi. The third line has six syllables, one over the count.
Fourth line, 'semete mo oshiki', means keenly regrettable, semete mo expressing a great degree.
Final line, 'toshi no kure kana', means this end of the year, with the exclamatory kana.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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