Saoshika no ono no kusabushi ichishiroku waga towanaku ni hito no shireraku

さを鹿の小野の草伏いちしろく
我がとはなくに人の知れらく

Roma-ji: Saoshika no ono no kusabushi ichishiroku waga towanaku ni hito no shireraku
English Translation: Of the stag, the bed
pressed down in the moorland grass—
plain as that it is,
though I have not gone to call,
others know it, all the same.
Meaning: Plain as the stag's bed pressed in the grass of the field—though I have not visited you, people have found out.
Commentary: Book Ten Autumn Love Poems 2268

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Love Expressed Through Deer"
This poem laments that, as plainly as the flattened grass where the stag slept, people have found out about their love, though the speaker has not visited the beloved. Whereas the preceding poem warned that love must not be known, this one laments that it already is, so the two sing of before and after in a hidden love. It also resonates with 1905 in the spring love poems, about a beloved gossiped about for things he did not do.

The first line, "of the stag," is the same opening as the preceding poem.
In the second line, "ono no kusabushi," "kusabushi" is the flattened bed where a deer lay in the grass.
The third line, "ichishiroku," plainly, with the upper lines forming a preface leading into it.
In the fourth line, "waga towanaku ni," "tou" means to visit and "naku ni" is a nominalized negative with "ni": though I have not visited.
In the last line, "hito no shireraku," "raku" nominalizes: that people have come to know.
Source: Manyoshu
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