Iro fukaki miyamagakure no momijiba o arashi no kaze no tayori ni zo miru - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

色深きみ山隠れの紅葉葉を
嵐の風のたよりにぞ見る

Roma-ji: Iro fukaki miyamagakure no momijiba o arashi no kaze no tayori ni zo miru
English Translation: Colored deep, hidden
in the shadows of the hills,
the crimson leaves there,
it is by the storm wind's grace
that I come to look on them
Meaning: The deeply colored autumn leaves hidden in the depths of the mountains I see only thanks to the storm wind that brings them.
Commentary: Book Eleven Variant Poems 682

The deeply dyed autumn leaves hidden in the remote mountains, out of human sight, the poet can see only because the storm scatters them and carries them down. Rather than resenting the storm that scatters the leaves, the poem sees it as a messenger bringing hidden colors.
This poem is found only in a variant manuscript line of the anthology; in the variant order it is placed after 253 in Book Three. Poem 253 also sings of the Tonase Falls buried in falling autumn leaves, so poems on autumn leaves stand together.

First line, 'iro fukaki', means deep in color, the richly dyed leaves.
Second line, 'miyamagakure no', means hidden in the deep mountains, showing that the leaves are out of sight.
Third line, 'momijiba o', means the autumn leaves. It is the same word as in the second line of 253 in Book Three, chiru momijiba ni.
Fourth line, 'arashi no kaze no', means of the storm wind.
Final line, 'tayori ni zo miru', means I see them by its means, the particle zo answered by the attributive miru.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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