Tsuki no iro o hana ni kasanete ominaeshi uwamo no shita ni tsuyu o kaketaru

月の色を花に重ねて女郎花
上裳の下に露をかけたる

Roma-ji: Tsuki no iro o hana ni kasanete ominaeshi uwamo no shita ni tsuyu o kaketaru
English Translation: Laying the moon's hue
over her own flowers' gold,
the maidenflower
underneath her outer skirt
hangs the dewdrops she has on.
Meaning: Laying the moon's pale color over her flowers, the maidenflower wears dewdrops hung beneath her outer skirt.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 390

Headnote: "Autumn flowers before the moon"
The topic is autumn flowers before the moon. The maidenflower wears the white moonlight layered over her yellow flowers, and beneath the outer skirt she has put on hang drops of dew. Likening the maidenflower to an elegantly dressed woman, the poem pictures the moonlight as a skirt layered on top and the dew as ornaments beneath it.
The device of likening the maidenflower to a woman, carried through the poems from 276, is linked here with moonlight. The next poem, on the same topic, also sings of the maidenflower in the moonlight.

First line, “tsuki no iro o”: a hypermetric line of six syllables, the color of the moonlight.
Second line, “hana ni kasanete”: layering it over the flowers, likening it to the layering of robes.
Third line, “ominaeshi”: the subject of the following lines, likened to a woman.
Fourth line, “uwamo no shita ni”: uwamo is an outer skirt, the moonlight seen as a skirt the maidenflower has layered on.
Fifth line, “tsuyu o kaketaru”: taru is the attributive of the continuative tari, having dew hung on her; the attributive ending lingers.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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