Tsuyujimo no samuki yūbe no akikaze ni momichinikerashi tsumanashi no ki wa

露霜の寒き夕の秋風に
もみちにけらし妻梨の木は

Roma-ji: Tsuyujimo no samuki yūbe no akikaze ni momichinikerashi tsumanashi no ki wa
English Translation: With the dew and frost,
on a chill and bitter eve
in the autumn wind
it has turned to red, it seems—
"Wifeless" pear tree, lonely one.
Meaning: In the autumn wind of a cold evening with dew and frost, it seems to have turned color—the pear tree whose name says "no wife."
Commentary: Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2189

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Autumn Leaves"
This poem infers that the pear tree has turned color in the autumn wind of a cold evening with dew and frost. Like the preceding poem it plays on "tsumanashi," pear and no wife, overlaying the loneliness of the single life on a pear tree coloring on a cold evening. Whereas the preceding poem wished to wear a pear branch, this one infers the pear's coloring, so the two sing of the wifeless pear in succession.

The first line, "of dew and frost," names the chill.
The second line, "the cold evening's," names the time.
The third line, "in the autumn wind," names the wind.
In the fourth line, "momichinikerashi," "kerashi" is inference about the past: it seems to have turned color. The poem breaks here.
The last line, "the wifeless pear tree," names by inversion the object of inference, using the same pun as the preceding poem.
Source: Manyoshu
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