Tomoshi suru Miyagigahara no shitatsuyu ni shinobu mojizuri kawaku yo zo naki - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

照射する宮城が原の下露に
しのぶもぢずり乾く夜ぞなき

Roma-ji: Tomoshi suru Miyagigahara no shitatsuyu ni shinobu mojizuri kawaku yo zo naki
English Translation: On Miyagi Plain
where the hunters light their torches,
in the dew below,
the Shinobu-dyed robes they hide in
never have a night to dry
Meaning: On Miyagi Plain, where hunters stalk deer by torchlight, the Shinobu-dyed robes of those who hide and wait are soaked by the dew beneath the grasses and never have a night to dry.
Commentary: Book Three Summer Poems 194

Headnote: "Composed on torch-hunting when presenting a hundred-poem sequence in the same reign"
Composed on "torch-hunting" for the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequence in the same reign of Emperor Horikawa. Torch-hunting, tomoshi, was a summer night hunt in which torches were set on poles to lure deer and shoot them. The hunters on Miyagi Plain, soaked by the dew beneath the grasses as they hide and wait, never have a night when their Shinobu-dyed robes can dry. Pivoting on "shinobu," both "hiding oneself" and the "Shinobu mojizuri" cloth of Michinoku, and layering poetic places of Michinoku, the poem depicts hunters drenched with night dew. Poems on torch-hunting begin here.
The author, "Former Middle Counselor Masafusa," is Ōe no Masafusa, son of Ōe no Narihira. As a scholar he served three emperors, Go-Sanjō, Shirakawa and Horikawa, rising to Provisional Middle Counselor. Famed for his learning, he was one of the poets of the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequence.
"Shinobu mojizuri" is a rubbed-dye cloth with tangled patterns from Shinobu District in Michinoku, famous from the Kokin Wakashū poem by Minamoto no Tōru, the Kawara Minister of the Left: "Like the tangled Shinobu prints of Michinoku, for whose sake has my heart fallen into disorder? Not my own."
This poem and the six that follow, through 200, form a sequence on torch-hunting.

First line, "tomoshi suru": "where they hunt by torchlight." Poems 197, 198 and 200 of this book open with the same words.
Second line, "Miyagigahara no": Miyagigahara is Miyagino, a poetic place in Michinoku. Poem 218 of this book also mentions Miyagino.
Third line, "shitatsuyu ni": "in the dew beneath the grasses."
Fourth line, "shinobu mojizuri": a pivot word for "hiding oneself" and the "Shinobu mojizuri" cloth of Shinobu District in Michinoku, the robes of hunters lying hidden in wait for game.
Fifth line, "kawaku yo zo naki": "zo" closes with the attributive "naki," showing that with hunting every night the robes never dry.
Author: Oe no Masafusa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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