Oshinabete kokusa no sue no hara made ni nabikite aki no aware miekeri

おしなべて木草の末の原までに
なびきて秋のあはれ見えけり

Roma-ji: Oshinabete kokusa no sue no hara made ni nabikite aki no aware miekeri
English Translation: Everywhere alike,
trees and grasses to their tips,
far across the field,
bending, show me autumn's
moving sadness to the eye.
Meaning: All alike, trees and grasses bend at their tips far across the field, and the deep feeling of autumn becomes visible to the eye.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 286

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Reed grass"
This poem continues the topic of the preceding one. The wind that blows through the reed grass spreads, and all the trees and grasses alike bend at their tips far across the field, so that the aware of autumn appears in visible form. The feeling of the reed grass's rustle that the poet heard in the preceding poem is caught here as a scene for the eye.
Where the preceding poem grasped autumn's aware through the ear with kikoyuru, this one grasps it through the eye with miekeri, so autumn heard and autumn seen form a pair.

First line, “oshinabete”: all alike, uniformly.
Second line, “kokusa no sue no”: the tips of trees and grasses, the parts that bend in the wind.
Third line, “hara made ni”: even to the far end of the field, showing how widely they bend.
Fourth line, “nabikite aki no”: swaying with the wind, the wind passing over the reed grass reaching all across the moor.
Fifth line, “aware miekeri”: keri expresses realization, the wonder of noticing autumn's aware appearing in visible form.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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