Aki wa haya kinikeru mono o ōkata no no ni mo yama ni mo tsuyu zo okunaru

秋ははや来にけるものをおほかたの
野にも山にも露ぞ置くなる

Roma-ji: Aki wa haya kinikeru mono o ōkata no no ni mo yama ni mo tsuyu zo okunaru
English Translation: Autumn, it is clear,
has already come to us—
everywhere around,
on the fields and on the hills,
I can tell the dew is laid.
Meaning: Autumn has already come—everywhere, on fields and hills alike, the dew seems to be settling.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 187

Headnote: "White dew"
The poet senses that autumn has already arrived from the dew settling everywhere on fields and hills. He takes the topic "white dew" broadly, as a scene spreading over the whole countryside.
In the source text consulted, a character at the start of line 2 is missing and has been supplied from the Teika text's kinikeru mono o.

Line 1 means "autumn, already."
Line 2: mono o is a conjunction carrying exclamation, "how autumn has already come," taking up "autumn has come" in the preceding poems.
Line 3, ōkata no, means "all around, everywhere."
Line 4, "on fields and on hills," sets the two side by side to show how widely the dew is laid. Whereas in the preceding poem, 186, autumn sought out the dew on bush-clover leaves, this poem sings of the dew over all the hills and fields, the same dew on a small and a large scale.
Line 5 concludes the binding particle zo with naru, the attributive of the inferential nari.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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