Tsuyu omomi sono no nadeshiko ika naran araku mietsuru yūdachi no sora

露重み園の撫子いかならん
荒く見えつる夕立の空

Roma-ji: Tsuyu omomi sono no nadeshiko ika naran araku mietsuru yūdachi no sora
English Translation: Heavy with the dew,
how fares the pink in the garden?
For I saw how fierce,
how wild and rough it looked,
that sky of the evening squall.
Meaning: Weighed down with dew, how is the pink in the garden faring? The sky of the evening shower looked so fierce.
Commentary: Summer Poems 235

Headnote: "The wild pink in the rain"
This poem was composed on the topic of the pink in the rain. After a violent evening shower has passed, the poet recalls its fierce sky and worries whether the pink in his garden has been beaten down by the weight of the raindrops.
Where the preceding poem told of dew spilling from the pink, this one worries about the dew weighing heavily upon it, treating the same pairing of pink and dew in two ways, as freshness and as concern.

First line, “tsuyu omomi”: an adjective stem with mi, because the dew is heavy.
Second line, “sono no nadeshiko”: sono is a garden planted with flowers and trees.
Third line, “ika naran”: how is it faring, with a break after the third line.
Fourth line, “araku mietsuru”: tsuru is the attributive of the perfective tsu, recalling how fierce the passing shower looked.
Fifth line, “yūdachi no sora”: the poem ends on a noun, naming the sky of the violent shower that gives cause for concern.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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