Wakekitsuru ozasa no tsuyu ni sobochitsutsu hoshi zo wazurau sumizome no sode

分けきつる小笹の露にそぼちつつ
干しぞわづらふ墨染の袖

Roma-ji: Wakekitsuru ozasa no tsuyu ni sobochitsutsu hoshi zo wazurau sumizome no sode
English Translation: Soaked through by the dew
on the bamboo grass I've pushed
my way through to come,
they will not dry for all my trying,
these ink-black sleeves of mine.
Meaning: Drenched again and again by the dew on the bamboo grass I pushed through, my ink-black sleeves will not dry.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 918

Headnote: "At a place called the Ozasa Lodge, where the dew lay heavy"
On the path of ascetic practice in the Ōmine mountains, at a place called the Ozasa Lodge, the dew lay heavy, and the poet composed this. Drenched by the dew on the bamboo grass I pushed through, my ink-black sleeves will not dry, he says, entrusting the hardship of mountain practice to his dew-soaked sleeves. It takes up 'nurekeri' from the preceding poem.

First line, “wakekitsuru”: that I have pushed through.
Second line, “ozasa no tsuyu ni”: in the dew on the little bamboo grass, working in the place name Ozasa.
Third line, “sobochitsutsu”: sobotsu is to be soaked through.
Fourth line, “hoshi zo wazurau”: hard to dry; zo is answered by the attributive wazurau.
Fifth line, “sumizome no sode”: ending on a noun, the sleeves of a monk's robe.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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