Waga kado no asaji irozuku yonabari no namishiba no no no momichi chirurashi

我が門の浅茅色づく吉隠の
浪柴の野の黄葉散るらし

Roma-ji: Waga kado no asaji irozuku yonabari no namishiba no no no momichi chirurashi
English Translation: By my garden gate
the short grass has turned to red;
at Yonabari
on the fields of Namishiba
the crimson leaves must be falling.
Meaning: The short grass by my gate is turning color—on the fields of Namishiba at Yonabari, the autumn leaves must be scattering.
Commentary: Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2190

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Autumn Leaves"
Seeing the short grass by the gate turning color, this poem infers that autumn leaves must be scattering on the fields of Namishiba at Yonabari. From the coloring of familiar grass it imagines leaves falling in distant fields, so the heart widens from near to far. Like 2186, "the tips of the short grass by my gate have turned color," it takes the coloring of the grass at the gate as a gauge of the season.

The first line, "by my gate," names the place.
The second line, "the short grass turns color," breaks the poem after the second line.
In the third line, "yonabari no," Yonabari is a place in Yamato, present-day Sakurai, Nara.
The fourth line, "of Namishiba Plain," is thought to be a field at Yonabari, and is hypermetric.
In the last line, "momichi chirurashi," "rashi" marks grounded inference, closing by inferring from the nearby grass that distant leaves are falling.
Source: Manyoshu
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