Shigure no ame manaku na furiso kurenai ni nioeru yama no chiramaku oshi mo

時雨の雨間なくな降りそ紅に
にほへる山の散らまく惜しも

Roma-ji: Shigure no ame manaku na furiso kurenai ni nioeru yama no chiramaku oshi mo
English Translation: The autumn showers,
do not fall on without pause,
for in deep crimson
the mountains glow, and I grieve
to think their leaves will fall
Meaning: O autumn showers, do not fall without pause; how I would grieve to see the mountains glowing crimson lose their leaves.
Commentary: Book Eight Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 1594

Headnote: "A poem chanted before the Buddha"
The poem begs the autumn showers not to fall without pause, for it would be a pity to see the mountains glowing crimson lose their leaves. According to the note, when a lecture on the Vimalakīrti Sutra was held at the Empress's palace in the tenth month of winter, music of Tang, Koguryŏ, and other lands was offered to the Buddha all day, and these words were chanted among it. The koto was played by Prince Ichihara and Prince Osaka, and the singers numbered more than ten, including Taguchi no Ason Yakamori, Kawabe no Ason Azumahito, and Okisome no Muraji Hatsuse. As a poem chanted before the Buddha, it is a precious record of court culture.
The author is unknown. The Empress's palace was that of Empress Kōmyō, and the Vimalakīrti lecture was a Buddhist service expounding that sutra.

The first line, with an extra syllable, names the showers that both color and scatter the leaves.
The second line uses the prohibitive "na ... so," begging them not to fall without pause, and the poem pauses here. In 1553 and 1585 of this book, showers are sung as falling "without pause."
The third line means "in vivid crimson."
The fourth line means "the mountains glowing," the mountains adorned with autumn leaves.
The final line means "how I regret that they will fall," closing with the exclamatory "mo." Prince Nagaya's 1517 in this book ends with the same line, regretting the fall of the leaves on Mount Miwa.
Source: Manyoshu
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