Asa na asa na tsuyu ni orefusu akihagi no hana fumishidaki shika zo nakunaru

朝な朝な露に折れ伏す秋萩の
花踏みしだき鹿ぞ鳴くなる

Roma-ji: Asa na asa na tsuyu ni orefusu akihagi no hana fumishidaki shika zo nakunaru
English Translation: Morning after morning
bent and broken by the dew,
the autumn clover—
trampling on the blossoms there,
I can hear a stag cry out.
Meaning: Morning after morning, trampling the autumn clover blossoms bowed and broken by the dew, a stag is crying.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 243

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Poems on deer"
Morning after morning, a stag cries as it tramples the autumn bush clover blossoms that lie broken under the weight of dew. The poet captures the classic autumn pairing of clover and deer as a vivid scene of dew-soaked morning fields.
This poem was included in the Shokugosen Wakashū. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle.

Line 1, "morning after morning," is hypermetric.
Line 2 means "broken and bowed by the dew," the same scene as the clover drooping under heavy dew in 206.
Line 3 names the autumn bush clover.
Line 4 means "trampling the flowers." In the preceding poem, 242, the stag grieved over the fading clover; here the stag tramples those very flowers, contrasting the stag's relations to the clover.
Line 5 concludes the binding particle zo with the inferential naru.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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