Nobe mireba nadeshiko no hana sakinikeri waga matsu aki wa chikazukurashi mo

野辺見ればなでしこの花咲きにけり
我が待つ秋は近づくらしも

Roma-ji: Nobe mireba nadeshiko no hana sakinikeri waga matsu aki wa chikazukurashi mo
English Translation: When I view the fields,
there the wild pinks have come out,
blossoming in bloom;
autumn, which I wait for so,
seems to be drawing near now.
Meaning: When I look over the fields, the wild pinks have bloomed. The autumn I have been waiting for seems to be drawing near.
Commentary: Book Ten Summer Miscellaneous Poems 1972

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Flowers"
Seeing wild pinks blooming in the fields, this poem knows that the long-awaited autumn is approaching. The composition that takes a flower's blooming as a sign of the season's arrival is the same as 1812 at the head of the book, which knew spring by the haze, and here it shows a heart awaiting autumn at summer's end. The reason for awaiting autumn is not stated, but it may be read as waiting for the Tanabata meeting or for a lover's visit.

The first line, "when I look at the fields," sets the scene.
The second line, "the wild pinks," sings of the same flower as 1970, and is hypermetric.
In the third line, "sakinikeri," "keri" expresses exclamatory realization, and the poem breaks here.
The fourth line, "the autumn I await," names what is awaited.
In the last line, "chikazukurashi mo," "rashi" marks grounded inference and "mo" is exclamatory, closing by inferring from the flowers that autumn is near.
Source: Manyoshu
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