Aki no no no obana ga sode ni manekasete ika naru hito o matsumushi no koe

秋の野の尾花が袖に招かせて
いかなる人をまつ虫の声

Roma-ji: Aki no no no obana ga sode ni manekasete ika naru hito o matsumushi no koe
English Translation: Bidding plumes of grass,
like sleeves in the autumn fields,
beckon for its sake,
what kind of person do you
wait for, pine cricket singing?
Meaning: Having the pampas plumes of the autumn fields beckon with their sleeves, whom are you waiting for, pine cricket, with your song?
Commentary: Autumn Poems 453

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When I composed poems on insects"
This is the ninth poem in the insect series. On the autumn moor, the pine cricket has the pampas plumes, likened to sleeves, beckon to someone; whom can it be waiting for, singing so? Laying the waiting of matsu over the name of the matsumushi and the swaying plumes over a beckoning sleeve, it turns the scene into one of waiting for a lover.
Matsu plays on matsu, to wait. The image of pampas plumes beckoning to people appears in 273, 297 and 385, and here the plumes beckon on behalf of the pine cricket.

First line, “aki no no no”: of the autumn moor.
Second line, “obana ga sode ni”: the pampas plumes likened to sleeves; ga is a particle linking to the noun.
Third line, “manekasete”: se is causative, having the sleeves of the pampas beckon.
Fourth line, “ika naru hito o”: what kind of person, the object of matsu in the last line.
Fifth line, “matsumushi no koe”: matsu is a pivot word joining the name of the pine cricket and matsu, to wait, ending on a noun.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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