Shigure furu Ōarakino no ozasahara nure wa hizu to mo iro ni ideme ya

時雨降る大荒木野の小笹原
濡れはひづとも色に出でめや

Roma-ji: Shigure furu Ōarakino no ozasahara nure wa hizu to mo iro ni ideme ya
English Translation: Like the bamboo-grass
on the moor of Ōaraki
where the showers fall,
though soaked and drenched through,
would I let my color show?
Meaning: Like the low bamboo grass on the moor of Ōaraki in the falling showers, though I am drenched with tears, would I let my love show in my face? Never.
Commentary: Love Poems 500

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Hidden love"
Like the bamboo grass on the moor of Ōaraki that keeps its color though drenched by cold showers, the poet will not let his love show though soaked with tears. Beginning with the same line as the preceding poem, it repeats the vow of hidden love.

Line 1 is the same as line 1 of the preceding poem.
Line 2 names the moor of Ōaraki, a poetic place in Yamashiro, with an extra syllable; the same place as in 454.
Line 3 names a field of low bamboo grass.
Line 4 means "though drenched through," overlaid with tears.
Line 5: ya is rhetorical, "would I let it show? never"; the same last line as 429.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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