Yūtsuyu no tama shiku oda no inamushiro kabusu hosue ni tsuki zo sumikeru

夕露の玉敷く小田の稲筵
かぶす穂末に月ぞ澄みける

Roma-ji: Yūtsuyu no tama shiku oda no inamushiro kabusu hosue ni tsuki zo sumikeru
English Translation: In the rice field where
evening dew lies strewn like jewels,
a mat of ripe grain,
on the tips of bowing ears,
how the moon is shining clear.
Meaning: In the paddy strewn with evening dew like jewels, where the ripe rice spreads like a woven mat, the moon shines clear on the tips of the heavy, bowing ears.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 396

Headnote: "The moon at a farmhouse"
The topic is the moon seen at a country house. In a paddy where the evening dew lies like spread jewels, the rice has ripened like a mat spread over the whole field, and the moonlight shines clear in the dew on the heavy, bowing tips of the ears. To the scene of a ripening autumn paddy the poet adds the beauty of dew and moonlight.
It echoes 304, where the moon dwells in the dew on the little grasses of a garden, and here the moon dwells in the dew on the ears across a whole wide field. The moon at a farmhouse also resonates with the poems on autumn evenings at a farmhouse from 464.

First line, “yūtsuyu no”: of the evening dew.
Second line, “tama shiku oda no”: of the paddy where the dew lies spread like jewels, with o as a prefix.
Third line, “inamushiro”: the rice ripened and spread across the field like a woven mat.
Fourth line, “kabusu hosue ni”: kabusu means to bow the head, on the tips of the heavy, bowing ears.
Fifth line, “tsuki zo sumikeru”: zo is answered by the attributive keru, stressing that the moon shines clear there.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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