Kikitsu ya to kimi ga towaseru hototogisu shinononi nurete koyu nakiwataru

聞きつやと君が問はせる霍公鳥
しののに濡れてこゆ鳴き渡る

Roma-ji: Kikitsu ya to kimi ga towaseru hototogisu shinononi nurete koyu nakiwataru
English Translation: "Did you hear it?" asked
you, of the hototogisu—
soaking wet, drenched through,
it came singing by this way,
crossing over as it went.
Meaning: The hototogisu you asked me about, "Did you hear it?"—drenched through, it came singing this way as it crossed over.
Commentary: Book Ten Summer Miscellaneous Poems 1977

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Poems in Dialogue"
Answering the preceding poem's question whether the speaker had heard the hototogisu, this poem replies that the bird came drenched and singing this way, and it forms an exchange with 1976. It takes up the preceding poem's last line, "did you hear it?", as its opening, making the dialogue form clear. Like 1831 in the spring poems, "drenched in the morning mist, the calling bird," it depicts a bird crossing wet and singing.

The first line, "did you hear it," takes up the last line of the preceding poem.
In the second line, "kimi ga towaseru," "se" is the honorific auxiliary "su" and "ru" the attributive of "ri."
The third line, "hototogisu," is the bird asked about.
In the fourth line, "shinononi nurete," "shinononi" means drenched through, the same word as in 1831.
The last line, "koyu nakiwataru," crosses singing by way of here, is the same ending as 1959.
Source: Manyoshu
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