Saoshika no kokoro aiomou akihagi no shigure no furu ni chiraku shi oshi mo

さを鹿の心相思ふ秋萩の
しぐれの降るに散らくし惜しも

Roma-ji: Saoshika no kokoro aiomou akihagi no shigure no furu ni chiraku shi oshi mo
English Translation: With the stag its mate
heart to heart in mutual love,
autumn bush clover—
in the falling of the showers
oh, how sad to see it fall!
Meaning: How sad that the autumn bush clover, which shares its heart with the stag, should scatter in the falling showers.
Commentary: Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2094

Headnote: "On Flowers"
This poem grieves that the autumn bush clover, which exchanges hearts with the stag, is scattered by the autumn showers, and its headnote is "On Flowers." The device of likening deer and bush clover to lovers is common in the Man'yōshū, and bush clover was sometimes called the deer's wife. After the long series of Tanabata poems, the autumn miscellaneous poems move to a group on bush clover, singing of autumn's emblems one after another.
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro was a court poet of the Asuka period, active under Empress Jitō and Emperor Monmu. The left note records that this poem comes from the Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection, and it is uncertain whether it is Hitomaro's own work or a poem by someone else that he recorded.

In the first line, "saoshika no," "sa" is a prefix: of the stag.
The second line, "hearts loving each other," likens deer and bush clover to lovers.
The third line, "the autumn bush clover," names the representative flower of autumn.
The fourth line, "as the showers fall," names the cause of falling.
In the last line, "chiraku shi oshi mo," "chiraku" is the nominalized form of "chiru," "shi" is emphatic, and "mo" exclamatory, closing with regret at the falling.
Author: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Source: Manyoshu
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