Okuyama ni sumu to iu shika no yoi sarazu tsumadou hagi no chiramaku oshi mo

奥山に棲むといふ鹿の夕さらず
妻どふ萩の散らまく惜しも

Roma-ji: Okuyama ni sumu to iu shika no yoi sarazu tsumadou hagi no chiramaku oshi mo
English Translation: In the mountains deep
dwells, they say, a stag who comes
every single night
wooing bush clover as his wife—
how I grieve to see it fall!
Meaning: The bush clover that the stag of the deep mountains, so they say, visits every evening as his wife—how sad that it must scatter!
Commentary: Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2098

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Flowers"
This poem grieves at the falling of the bush clover that the stag dwelling in the deep mountains visits every evening as his wife. Like 2094, it likens deer and bush clover to husband and wife, and it holds the pathos that the clover's falling means the stag's loss of his wife.

The first line, "in the deep mountains," names remote mountains.
The second line, "the deer said to dwell there," is hypermetric.
The third line, "yoi sarazu," means every evening without fail.
In the fourth line, "tsumadou hagi no," "tsumadou" means to visit one's wife, likening the bush clover to the stag's wife.
In the last line, "chiramaku oshi mo," "maku" is the nominalized "mu" and "mo" exclamatory, closing with regret at the falling.
Source: Manyoshu
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