Hitokata ni midaru tomo naki waga koi ya kaze sadamaranu nobe no karukaya

一方に乱るともなき我が恋や
風定まらぬ野辺の刈萱

Roma-ji: Hitokata ni midaru tomo naki waga koi ya kaze sadamaranu nobe no karukaya
English Translation: Not in one direction
is it tangled, nothing so,
this love that is mine,
like in the fields the kaya
in a wind that will not settle.
Meaning: My love is not tangled in one direction alone, but like the kaya grass in the fields, blown every way by a wind that never settles.
Commentary: Love Poems 603

Headnote: "Love expressed through kaya grass"
The topic is love expressed through kaya grass. As the kaya grass of the fields bends in every direction in a wind that cannot settle on a course, so the poet's love is tangled not in one direction but in all. Midaru, to be in disorder, is associated with the grass, and the tangle of a heart in love is laid over its form.

First line, “hitokata ni”: in one direction.
Second line, “midaru tomo naki”: not tangled in one way only, but in every way; midaru is associated with the kaya grass.
Third line, “waga koi ya”: ya is exclamatory: such is my love. The poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “kaze sadamaranu”: the wind never settling on one course.
Fifth line, “nobe no karukaya”: karukaya is a grass of the autumn fields, sung as bending and tangling in the wind; ending on a noun, the poem entrusts the state of love to the grass, answering the topic.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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