Aga koromo sureru ni wa arazu takamatsu no nobe yukishikaba hagi no sureru zo

我が衣摺れるにはあらず高松の
野辺行きしかば萩の摺れるぞ

Roma-ji: Aga koromo sureru ni wa arazu takamatsu no nobe yukishikaba hagi no sureru zo
English Translation: This robe that I wear
is not dyed by rubbing it;
at Takamatsu,
walking through the fields, it was
bush clover that rubbed it so.
Meaning: My robe was not rub-dyed by my own hand—I walked through the fields of Takamatsu, and it was the bush clover that dyed it.
Commentary: Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2101

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Flowers"
This poem says that the color on the speaker's robe was not rub-dyed by hand, but that the bush clover dyed it while walking through the fields of Takamatsu. The idea of a robe naturally dyed by walking through fields full of bush clover conveys both the abundance of the flowers and the heart's delight in them. Like 1965 in the summer poems, where rub-dyeing with alder was sung, it sings of dyeing cloth with plants.

The first line, "my robe," names the garment.
The second line, "it is not that I dyed it," is hypermetric, and the poem breaks here.
The third line, "of Takamatsu," is thought to be Takamato, a place name also seen in 1874.
In the fourth line, "nobe yukishikaba," "shika" is the perfective of the past "ki" and "ba" an established condition: because I walked through the fields.
In the last line, "hagi no sureru zo," "zo" is an emphatic particle, closing with the assertion that the bush clover dyed it.
Source: Manyoshu
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