Sakisowan tokoro no nobe ni araba ya wa hagi yori hoka no hana mo miru beki

咲き添はん所の野辺にあらばやは
萩より外の花も見るべき

Roma-ji: Sakisowan tokoro no nobe ni araba ya wa hagi yori hoka no hana mo miru beki
English Translation: Were there in the moor
any place where other flowers
might bloom alongside,
then perhaps I might see some
other blossoms than clover.
Meaning: If there were any room in the moor for other flowers to bloom beside them, then I might see flowers other than bush clover; but there is none.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 270

Headnote: "Bush clover filling the moor"
The topic is bush clover filling the fields. If there were any space in the moor for other flowers to bloom as well, one might see flowers besides bush clover, but the fields are so covered with it that no other flower can be seen. The rhetorical question emphasizes how the bush clover blooms over the whole moor.
Taking up the tangled fields of bush clover in the preceding poem, this one describes the clover filling the moor by saying there is no room for any other flower.

First line, “sakisowan”: sou is to be added, and n is the attributive of the conjectural mu, such that other flowers might bloom besides.
Second line, “tokoro no nobe ni”: a place for them in the moor.
Third line, “araba ya wa”: if there were; ya wa is a rhetorical particle answering beki in the last line.
Fourth line, “hagi yori hoka no”: other than bush clover, conveying from the other side the topic of clover filling the moor.
Fifth line, “hana mo miru beki”: the attributive beki answers ya wa in a rhetorical question, could I see other flowers? No, I could not.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
Prev Poem: Midare saku nobe no hagiwara wakekurete tsuyu ni mo sode o sometekeru kana
Next Poem: Wakete iru niwa shimo yagate nobe nareba hagi no sakari o waga mono ni miru