Ho ni izuru miyama ga suso no murasusuki magaki ni komete kakou akigiri

穂に出づる深山が裾の群薄
籬にこめて囲ふ秋霧

Roma-ji: Ho ni izuru miyama ga suso no murasusuki magaki ni komete kakou akigiri
English Translation: Bursting into plume
at the foot of the deep hills,
the clustered grasses
are fenced in as by a hedge
by the mists of autumn time.
Meaning: The clustered pampas grass, putting forth its plumes at the foot of the deep mountains, is shut in by the autumn mist as if within a woven fence.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 268

Headnote: "Autumn flowers in the mist"
The topic is autumn flowers glimpsed through mist. The autumn mist rises around the clusters of pampas grass putting out plumes at the foot of the deep mountains, enclosing them as though shutting them in with a fence. Likening the mist to a woven fence, the poem shows the pampas clusters dimly seen through it.
Pampas grass follows the bush clover of the poems before, and here the autumn mist is added to the scene.

First line, “ho ni izuru”: the pampas grass putting out its plumes.
Second line, “miyama ga suso no”: at the foot of the deep mountains; ga is a particle linking to the noun that follows.
Third line, “murasusuki”: pampas grass growing in clusters.
Fourth line, “magaki ni komete”: magaki is a loosely woven fence of bamboo or brushwood; likening the mist to such a fence, the poet says it shuts the grasses within.
Fifth line, “kakou akigiri”: ending on a noun, the autumn mist that encloses the pampas grass.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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