Ogi no ha ni soso ya akikaze fukinu nari kobore ya shinuru tsuyu no shiratama - Shika Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

荻の葉にそそや秋風吹きぬなり
こぼれやしぬる露の白玉

Roma-ji: Ogi no ha ni soso ya akikaze fukinu nari kobore ya shinuru tsuyu no shiratama
English Translation: On the reed leaves
a rustling: the autumn wind
has come blowing, it seems;
might they have spilled away,
the white jewels of the dew?
Meaning: A rustling on the reed leaves tells me the autumn wind has come. Might the dew, like white jewels on the leaves, have spilled away?
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 108

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
This is a poem by Ōe no Yoshitoki. Hearing the reed leaves rustle, he knows the autumn wind has come and imagines that the dew on the leaves has spilled in the wind.
The structure, knowing the wind by sound and imagining the fate of dew he cannot see, moves skillfully from hearing to sight. Taking up the wind over the reeds in the preceding poem, it turns its eye to the dew shaken by the wind.

The first line, "ogi no ha ni," places at the start the same words as the third line of the preceding poem, 107.
The second line, "soso ya akikaze," means "with a rustling, the autumn wind," soso ya imitating the sound of leaves.
The third line, "fukinu nari," means "seems to have blown," nari being an auxiliary of inference from sound. The poem pauses here.
The fourth line, "kobore ya shinuru," asks "might they have spilled?" with ya resolved in the attributive form nuru.
The last line, "tsuyu no shiratama," ends on a noun and likens the dew to white jewels.
Author: Ōe no Yoshitoki
Source: Shika Wakashu
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