Asaborake hagi no ue fuku akikaze ni shitaba oshinami tsuyu zo koboruru

朝ぼらけ萩の上吹く秋風に
下葉押しなみ露ぞこぼるる

Roma-ji: Asaborake hagi no ue fuku akikaze ni shitaba oshinami tsuyu zo koboruru
English Translation: In the light of dawn
with the autumn wind that blows
over the clover,
lower leaves are pressed and bent,
and the dewdrops spill and fall.
Meaning: At first light, the autumn wind blowing over the bush clover presses down even the lower leaves, and the dew spills away.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 211

Headnote: "On seeing the bush clover in the garden at dawn"
Looking at the garden's bush clover at dawn, the poet sees the autumn wind sweeping over it, pressing down even the lower leaves and spilling the dew that lay on them. He captures as a vivid scene the instant in which wind, clover, and dew move together.
The Ruijū and Teika texts read ogi, "reed," for hagi, "bush clover."

Line 1, asaborake, the faint light of dawn, presents the "dawn" of the headnote. Against the clover on a moonlit night in the preceding poem, 210, this sings of clover at dawn, so night and morning form a pair.
Line 2 means "blowing over the clover."
Line 3 means "in the autumn wind."
Line 4, "pressing down the lower leaves": whereas 204 sang of lower leaves not yet turned, here the lower leaves are pressed by the wind.
Line 5 concludes the binding particle zo with the attributive koboruru. Poem 257 ends with the same line.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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