Makuzu hau ada no ōno no shiratsuyu o fuki na midari so aki no hatsukaze - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

真葛はふあだの大野の白露を
吹きな乱りそ秋の初風

Roma-ji: Makuzu hau ada no ōno no shiratsuyu o fuki na midari so aki no hatsukaze
English Translation: On Ada's broad plain
where the kudzu vines creep wide,
the beads of white dew
do not blow them into disarray,
O first wind of autumn
Meaning: O first wind of autumn, do not scatter the white dew on the broad plain of Ada, where the kudzu vines creep and spread.
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 157

The poet calls on the first wind of autumn not to scatter the white dew lying on a broad plain overgrown with kudzu. The beauty of the dew that begins to form as autumn arrives, and the wish to keep it, are expressed as a plea to the wind.
Taking up the coolness of the wind on the first day of autumn in the preceding poem, 156, this poem addresses that first wind, and the two form the opening pair of autumn.
The author, Nakamasa, is Minamoto no Nakamasa. A son of Minamoto no Yoritsuna, he rose to Head of the Arsenal Bureau. He was the father of Minamoto no Yorimasa and was active as a poet from the reign of Emperor Horikawa.

First line, 'makuzu hau', means where the kudzu creeps, ma being a prefix of praise, setting an autumn field.
Second line, 'ada no ōno no', is a pivot word in which ada is both the place Ada in Yamato and ada, fleeting, hinting at the fragility of the soon-vanishing dew.
Third line, 'shiratsuyu o', is the dew on the grasses of the field, a motif of early autumn.
Fourth line, 'fuki na midari so', is a prohibition in the form na ... so: do not blow it into disarray. The poem breaks after the fourth line and the final line is inverted. 'The autumn wind that scatters the dew' in poem 237 depicts a wind that does just what this poem pleads against.
Final line, 'aki no hatsukaze', is the first wind of autumn, naming the one addressed with a closing noun.
Author: Minamoto no Nakamasa
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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