Kurenai no iro ni tamoto no shiguretsutsu sode ni aki aru kokochi koso sure

紅の色に袂のしぐれつつ
袖にあきある心地こそすれ

Roma-ji: Kurenai no iro ni tamoto no shiguretsutsu sode ni aki aru kokochi koso sure
English Translation: In the crimson hue
my sleeves are drenched as though by
the early winter rain,
and it feels as though autumn,
your weariness, has come to them.
Meaning: My sleeves are drenched again and again in crimson as if by the early winter rain, and it feels as though autumn, your weariness, has come to them alone.
Commentary: Love Poems 704

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Love"
Tears of crimson keep soaking the poet's sleeves like early winter rain, and his sleeves are dyed red as though with autumn leaves. So it feels as though autumn had come to his sleeves alone. Aki joins autumn, the season, with aki, the weariness of the beloved's heart, likening sleeves dyed by tears of blood to autumn leaves while lamenting her change of heart.
Taking up 'the autumn that awaits' of the preceding poem, this one says that aki has already come to the sleeves, showing that the awaited autumn has arrived.

First line, “kurenai no”: kurenai is crimson, the color of tears of blood shed in love's grief.
Second line, “iro ni tamoto no”: my sleeves, in that color.
Third line, “shiguretsutsu”: shiguru is for early winter rain to fall, and also to shed tears; tsutsu marks repetition.
Fourth line, “sode ni aki aru”: aki is a pivot word joining autumn with aki, weariness of a lover.
Fifth line, “kokochi koso sure”: it feels so; the binding particle koso is answered by the perfective sure.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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