Akatsuki no nezame ni suguru shigure koso morade mo hito no sode nurashikere - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

暁の寝覚めに過ぐる時雨こそ
漏らでも人の袖濡らしけれ

Roma-ji: Akatsuki no nezame ni suguru shigure koso morade mo hito no sode nurashikere
English Translation: The winter showers
that pass by as I lie awake
in the hour of dawn,
though they do not leak inside,
leave a person's sleeves wet
Meaning: The showers that pass as one lies awake before dawn wet one's sleeves even without leaking through the roof.
Commentary: Book Six Winter Poems 417

Headnote: "Topic unknown"
The showers that pass as one lies awake before dawn, the poet says, wet one's sleeves even without leaking through the roof. What wets the sleeves is not rain but tears drawn out by the sound of the showers heard on waking.
The author, "Ki no Yasumune," was a poet of the cloistered-rule period, but little is known of his life.
It shares the mood of "oto ni sae tamoto o nurasu shigure" in 403 of this book, and the word "moru" with "moranu shigure" in 404 and "morade shigure no" in 405. Here it brings to a close the run of poems on showers heard on waking.

First line, "akatsuki no": the dark hour before daybreak, the same hour as the poems on showers before dawn, 406 and 407 of this book.
Second line, "nezame ni suguru": "nezame" is waking suddenly in the night. Like 402 and 403 of this book, it hears showers on waking.
Third line, "shigure koso": the emphatic "koso" closes with "kere" in the perfective form in the last line.
Fourth line, "morade mo hito no": the negative connective "de," "even without leaking," the same word as "morade" in 405 of this book.
Fifth line, "sode nurashikere": "kere," the perfective form of the exclamatory "keri," closes the "koso" of the third line, showing that what wets the sleeves is tears.
Author: Ki no Yasumune
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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