Tatsutahime kazashi no tama no o o yowami midarenikeri to miyuru shiratsuyu - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

竜田姫かざしの玉の緒を弱み
乱れにけりと見ゆる白露

Roma-ji: Tatsutahime kazashi no tama no o o yowami midarenikeri to miyuru shiratsuyu
English Translation: Because the cord
of the jeweled hair ornament
of Tatsuta's goddess was weak,
they seem scattered in disarray,
these drops of pure white dew
Meaning: The white dew looks as though the cord threading the jewels in Princess Tatsuta's hair had grown too weak and broken, scattering them in disarray.
Commentary: Book Four Autumn Poems I 265

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed when presenting a hundred-poem sequence to Retired Emperor Sutoku"
Like the preceding poem, this was composed for the hundred-poem sequence presented to Retired Emperor Sutoku. The white dew scattered over the grasses is seen as the jewels of the hair ornament of Princess Tatsuta, goddess of autumn, scattered in disarray when the cord threading them grew weak and broke. Joining the traditional image of dewdrops as jewels with the adornment of the autumn goddess, the poem creates a splendid, dreamlike scene.
The author, "Fujiwara no Kiyosuke Ason," was the son of Fujiwara no Akisuke, Master of the Left Capital Office. Heir to the poetic learning of the Rokujō Fujiwara house, he was one of the foremost scholars of poetry of his day and wrote treatises such as the Fukuro-zōshi. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Where the preceding poem, 264, overlaid the dew with the frailty of one's own life, this one sees the dew as a goddess's jewels, treating the same dew in a different mood.

First line, "Tatsutahime": the goddess who governs autumn, said to be the deified Mount Tatsuta.
Second line, "kazashi no tama no": a "kazashi" is an ornament worn in the hair or on a cap, and the "jewels" are the image for dew.
Third line, "o o yowami": "o" is the cord threading the jewels, and "o ... mi" gives a cause: "because the cord was weak."
Fourth line, "midarenikeri to": "ni" is the continuative of the perfective "nu" and "keri" exclamatory: "that they have scattered in disarray."
Fifth line, "miyuru shiratsuyu": ends on a noun, presenting at last the white dew that is the subject of the likening. "Tama chirite" in 272 of this book also likens dew to scattering jewels.
Author: Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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