Kaze o matsu ima hata onaji Miyagino no motoara no hagi no hana no ue no tsuyu

風を待つ今はた同じ宮城野の
本荒の萩の花の上の露

Roma-ji: Kaze o matsu ima hata onaji Miyagino no motoara no hagi no hana no ue no tsuyu
English Translation: Waiting for the wind—
now I am just the same
as the dew upon
the sparse-stemmed clover blossoms
in the fields of Miyagino.
Meaning: Waiting for the wind to blow, I am now just the same as the dew on the blossoms of the sparse-stemmed bush clover in the fields of Miyagino.
Commentary: Love Poems 488

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on the theme of love at famous places"
Like the dew on the bush clover blossoms of Miyagino, which falls when the wind blows, the poet is now one who only waits to vanish. Taking as its source the Kokinshū poem on the sparse clover of Miyagino weighed with dew and waiting for the wind, it lays the ache of waiting love over the fragility of dew.

Line 1 means "waiting for the wind," drawing on "as it waits for the wind" in the source poem.
Line 2 means "now I am just the same," and the poem pauses here.
Line 3 means "of Miyagino," a poetic place in Michinoku.
Line 4 means "of the bush clover sparse at the stem," with an extra syllable.
Line 5 ends on a noun, overlaying the dew waiting for the wind and the poet waiting to vanish. From the autumn wind of the preceding poem, the imagery moves to dew on autumn clover.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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