Karagoromo inaba no tsuyu ni sode nurete mono omoe to mo nareru waga mi ka

唐衣稲葉の露に袖濡れて
物思へともなれる我が身か

Roma-ji: Karagoromo inaba no tsuyu ni sode nurete mono omoe to mo nareru waga mi ka
English Translation: Robes of Chinese silk—
with the dew on the rice leaves
my sleeves are drenched through:
as if bidden to brood on things,
this is what I have become!
Meaning: My sleeves soaked with the dew of the rice leaves, I have become someone who seems bidden to brood.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 247

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Autumn at a farmhouse"
As the dew on the rice leaves soaks his sleeves, the poet laments that he has become someone who seems told to brood. In a life of guarding the fields, the dew wetting his sleeves gradually merges with tears of brooding.
In the source text consulted, the last line reads nareru waga mi and is a syllable short; it has been supplied from the Ruijū and Teika texts' nareru waga mi ka.

Line 1, karagoromo, leads through the association of garments to the "sleeves" of line 3, working much like a pillow word.
Line 2, "with the dew on the rice leaves," shows the farmhouse scene of the topic, taking up the rice leaves of 223 and 224.
Line 3, "my sleeves are wet," also suggests tears; it is the same as line 3 of 244.
Line 4 means "as if bidden to brood."
Line 5: ru is the attributive of the resultative ri and ka expresses exclamation, lamenting that he has become such a person. Following the preceding poem, 246, which heard the stag from a watch hut, this one sings of the poet wet with the dew of the rice leaves.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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