Ominaeshi waketsuru nobe to omowaba ya onaji tsuyu ni shi nuru to mite zo wa

女郎花分けつる野辺と思はばや
同じ露にしぬると見てぞは

Roma-ji: Ominaeshi waketsuru nobe to omowaba ya onaji tsuyu ni shi nuru to mite zo wa
English Translation: Let me think this moor
is one I passed through, parting
maidenflowers there,
since I see us wet, it seems,
lying in the self-same dew.
Meaning: I would like to think this is the moor where I made my way through the maidenflowers, since I see that I am wet with the same dew as they, as if we had lain together.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 276

Headnote: "Maidenflower"
This poem was composed on the topic of the maidenflower, and a series of poems on the flower begins here. The poet would like to think his wet sleeves come from passing through a moor of maidenflowers; if he is wet with the same dew as the flowers, it is as though he had lain with them. The poem has a playful heart, drawing on the old habit of likening the maidenflower to a woman.
Nuru plays on nuru, to be wet, and nuru, to sleep, turning the dew-soaked sleeves into a trace of a night spent with the maidenflower. The maidenflower poems continue to 284, and its personification is tried in many ways.

First line, “ominaeshi”: one of the seven flowers of autumn, often likened to a woman because its name contains the character for woman.
Second line, “waketsuru nobe to”: tsuru is the attributive of the perfective tsu, the moor I passed through, parting the flowers.
Third line, “omowaba ya”: baya expresses the speaker's own wish, I would like to think so; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “onaji tsuyu ni shi nuru to”: shi is emphatic, and nuru is a pivot word meaning both wet and sleeping, wet with the same dew as the flower and lying with it.
Fifth line, “mite zo wa”: zo and wa together give emphasis, it is seeing it so that, closing with the reason for the wish in the third line.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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