Tsuyu shigeki nobe ni naraite kirigirisu waga tamakura no shita ni naku nari - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

露しげき野辺にならひてきりぎりす
我が手枕の下に鳴くなり

Roma-ji: Tsuyu shigeki nobe ni naraite kirigirisu waga tamakura no shita ni naku nari
English Translation: Used to fields of grass
where the dew is lying thick,
the cricket chirps
underneath the arm I use
for a pillow, wet with tears
Meaning: Used to dew-soaked fields, the cricket seems to be singing beneath the arm I sleep on, wet as it is with my tears.
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 218

The cricket, used to living in dew-soaked fields, seems to come and chirp under the poet's arm-pillow, wet with tears. Treating her tear-soaked sleeve as a dewy field, the poem indirectly conveys the grief of one who sleeps alone and weeps so much that insects are drawn to her.
Poems 218 and 219 in this book are poems on insects; after the moon sequence, the scene moves to the insects that sing on autumn nights.
The author, Taikenmon'in no Horikawa, was a daughter of Minamoto no Akinaka and a poet and lady-in-waiting to Taikenmon'in. She had earlier served the former Kamo Priestess, Princess Reishi, under the name Rokujō. She was the elder sister of Jōsaimon'in no Hyōe, and one of her poems appears in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

First line, 'tsuyu shigeki', means thick with dew, hinting at a sleeve wet with tears.
Second line, 'nobe ni naraite', uses narau, to grow accustomed: used to the dewy fields.
Third line, 'kirigirisu', is an autumn insect thought to be the cricket of today.
Fourth line, 'waga tamakura no', uses tamakura, sleeping with one's arm as a pillow, suggesting sleeping alone.
Final line, 'shita ni naku nari', uses the auditory inferential nari: I hear it singing there.
Author: Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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