Samidare no oyamu harema no nakarame ya mizu no kasa hose makomo karu fune

五月雨のをやむ晴れ間のなからめや
水のかさ干せ真菰刈る舟

Roma-ji: Samidare no oyamu harema no nakarame ya mizu no kasa hose makomo karu fune
English Translation: In the summer rain,
can there be no lull, no break?
Then dry out the flood
and your hats in it, you boats
that go cutting the wild rice.
Meaning: Surely there will be a lull in the early summer rains. Then let the flood go down and dry your hats, you boats that cut the wild rice.
Commentary: Summer Poems 222

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When fifteen poems on the early summer rains were composed at a certain place, written on behalf of another"
This is the eighth of the fifteen poems. Rainy season though it is, there must surely be a break when the rain lets up. Then the water will go down and the wet hats can be dried, so the poet calls to the boatmen cutting wild rice to wait for it.
Following the preceding poem, in which the wild rice lay sunk on the bottom, this one encourages the boatmen to wait for a clear spell to cut it, voicing hope for a break even in the long rains.

First line, “samidare no”: modifying the lull, oyamu harema, in the second line.
Second line, “oyamu harema no”: oyamu is for rain to stop for a little while.
Third line, “nakarame ya”: me is the perfective of the conjectural mu and ya is rhetorical, can there be none, meaning surely there will be; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “mizu no kasa hose”: kasa is a pivot word joining kasa, the volume of water, and kasa, the boatman's hat; the imperative hose bears both meanings, let the water dry up and dry your wet hats.
Fifth line, “makomo karu fune”: the poem ends on a noun, naming the boats cutting wild rice as those addressed.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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