Nobe ni idete sobochinikeri na karagoromo kitsutsu wakeyuku hana no shizuku ni

野辺に出でてそぼちにけりな唐衣
着つつ分けゆく花の雫に

Roma-ji: Nobe ni idete sobochinikeri na karagoromo kitsutsu wakeyuku hana no shizuku ni
English Translation: Going to the fields,
how I have been drenched right through!
Wearing Chinese robes
as I part my way along
by the droplets of the flowers.
Meaning: Going out to the fields I have been soaked through—by the drops of the flowers as I make my way among them, still wearing my robes.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 203

Headnote: "Flowering grasses"
Going out into the autumn fields and making his way among the flowering grasses, the poet finds his robes soaked by the dewdrops on the flowers. Rather than lamenting the wetness, the poem conveys the pleasure of parting the autumn flowers and the freshness of fields heavy with dew.
The Ruijū text gives the headnote as "Composed on flowering grasses."

Line 1, "going out to the fields," is hypermetric.
Line 2: sobotsu means to be drenched, and keri na expresses exclamation; the poem pauses here.
Line 3, karagoromo, "Chinese robe," is a pillow word for "wear."
Line 4: tsutsu marks continuation, "as I keep wearing them and part my way."
Line 5, "by the droplets of the flowers," gives last, through inversion, the cause of the soaking. The dew laid over fields and hills in 187 here wets the robes as droplets from the flowers.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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