Samidare no tsuyu mo mada hinu okuyama no maki no hagakure naku hototogisu

五月雨の露もまだ干ぬ奥山の
真木の葉隠れ鳴く郭公

Roma-ji: Samidare no tsuyu mo mada hinu okuyama no maki no hagakure naku hototogisu
English Translation: The fifth-month rains' dew
is not yet dry on the leaves
in the inner hills:
hidden by the cedar leaves,
there the hototogisu sings.
Meaning: In the deep hills, where the dew of the early-summer rain has not yet dried, the hototogisu sings hidden among the leaves of the cedars.
Commentary: Summer Poems 153

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "The hototogisu"
In the deep hills where the drops of the early-summer rain have not yet dried, the hototogisu sings hidden among the leaves of the cedars. Amid the moist green of the mountains, the poet portrays a bird that shows no form and lets only its voice resound.
Kamo no Mabuchi judged line 2 to be in the manner of the poet's later period. The pairing of "dew not yet dry" with "cedar leaves" appears to be learned from Jakuren's Shin Kokin Wakashū poem on mist rising from cedar leaves still wet with a passing shower on an autumn evening, here shifted from an autumn dusk to the summer hototogisu.

Line 1, "of the fifth-month rains," takes up the opening of the preceding poem, 152, continuing the sequence on the rains and the hototogisu.
Line 2: hinu means "not yet dry," with nu the attributive of the negative zu.
Line 3, okuyama, refers to deep mountains far from villages.
Line 4, "hidden by the cedar leaves," like "hidden in the trees" in 149, depicts a hototogisu that cannot be seen.
Line 5 ends on a noun, setting the singer last and leaving a lingering mood.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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