Ominaeshi akihagi shinogi saoshika no tsuyu wake nakamu Takamato no no zo

をみなへし秋萩しのぎさを鹿の
露別け鳴かむ高円の野ぞ

Roma-ji: Ominaeshi akihagi shinogi saoshika no tsuyu wake nakamu Takamato no no zo
English Translation: Maidenflowers
and autumn bush clover trampled,
the stag of the hills
will cry as it parts the dew:
such is Takamato's plain
Meaning: This is the plain of Takamato, where the stag will push through maidenflowers and autumn bush clover, parting the dew as it calls.
Commentary: Book Twenty Miscellaneous Poems 4297

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On the twelfth day of the eighth month of Tenpyō Shōhō 5, two or three officials each carried a jar of wine, climbed onto the plain of Takamato, and composed poems expressing a little of their feelings; three poems."
The poem praises the scene as the plain of Takamato, where the stag will push through maidenflowers and bush clover and call as it parts the dew, closing the set. After the first two poems took up the wind and the geese, this one turns to the flowers and deer on the ground and gathers the richness of autumn Takamato into one verse.
The author, Ōtomo no Yakamochi, son of Ōtomo no Tabito, is the poet thought to have been closely involved in compiling the Man'yōshū. At this time he was Junior Counselor.

The first line, "ominaeshi," names the maidenflower, one of the seven flowers of autumn, with small yellow blossoms. With the bush clover of the preceding poem it is a typical flower of the autumn fields.
The second line, "akihagi shinogi," uses shinogu, "to press down, push through," picturing the deer making its way through the flowers.
The third line, "saoshika no," with the prefix sa, means the stag. A stag calling for its mate in autumn is often paired with bush clover.
The fourth line, "tsuyu wake nakamu," with the conjectural mu, imagines a scene not yet seen: the stag will cry as it parts the dew.
The closing line, "Takamato no no zo," ends on a noun stressed by zo. Placing the same Takamato as the earlier poems at the close, it names once more the setting of the set.
Author: Otomo no Yakamochi
Source: Manyoshu
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