Shiratsuyu wa okinikerashi na Miyagino no motoara no kohagi sue tawamu made - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

白露は置きにけらしな宮城野の
本荒の小萩末たわむまで

Roma-ji: Shiratsuyu wa okinikerashi na Miyagino no motoara no kohagi sue tawamu made
English Translation: The white dew, it seems,
has settled heavily upon
Miyagino's moor,
where the sparse-rooted bush clover
bends down to its very tips.
Meaning: The white dew must have settled heavily—on the moor of Miyagino, the bush clover, sparse at its roots, bends down to the very tips of its branches.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 1566

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
This is the seventh poem of the sequence expressing personal feelings through the things of autumn. The white dew must have settled heavily, the poet says, for the bush clover of Miyagino, sparse at its roots, bends down to the tips of its branches. The headnote reads "topic unknown," and records nothing of the circumstances of composition.
The author, "Hafuribe no Tadanaka," was a poet of the Hafuribe family, who served as priests of the Hie Shrine.
Miyagino is a famous place in Michinoku, the moor east of present-day Sendai, known for its bush clover. The fourth line draws on an Eastern poem in the Kokin Wakashū: "Miyagino no / motoara no kohagi / tsuyu o omomi / kaze o matsu goto / kimi o koso mate" ("As the sparse-rooted bush clover of Miyagino, heavy with dew, waits for the wind, so I wait for you").

The first line, "shiratsuyu wa," presents dew shining white.
In the second line, "okinikerashi na," "kerashi" infers something past from evidence, meaning "it must have settled." "Na" adds exclamation, and the poem breaks after the second line.
The third line, "Miyagino no," presents Miyagino, a famous place in Michinoku.
The fourth line, "motoara no kohagi," refers to bush clover sparse in leaves at its roots. It uses the second line of the Eastern poem in the Kokin Wakashū as it is.
The last line, "sue tawamu made," means "until the tips of the branches bend." In inverted order, it shows the weight of the dew by the bending of the bush clover, serving as the grounds for the inference in the second line. It shifts the scene from the wind and dream of the two preceding poems to the dew of an autumn moor.
Author: Hafuribe no Tadanaka
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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