Shiratsuyu to hito wa iedomo nobe mireba oku hana goto ni iro zo kawareru - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

白露と人は言へども野辺見れば
置く花ごとに色ぞ変はれる

Roma-ji: Shiratsuyu to hito wa iedomo nobe mireba oku hana goto ni iro zo kawareru
English Translation: People call it white,
the dew, and yet when I look
across the meadow,
on each flower where it lies
its color is a different hue
Meaning: People call it white dew, yet when I look across the fields, its color changes with every flower it rests on.
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 227

Dew is called 'white dew', yet looking over the fields, the poet sees that its color differs with each flower it rests on. The beauty of dew that takes on the colors of the flowers is expressed through the gap between its name and how it appears.
The next poem, 228, also sings of white dew taking on many colors from the bush clover, and the two form a pair on the same conceit.
From poem 227 through poem 229 in this book come poems on the white dew of the fields and on bush clover.
The author was Higo, a daughter of Fujiwara no Sadanari, Governor of Higo, who served in the household of the Kyōgoku Regent Fujiwara no Morozane. She was one of the poets of the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequences.

First line, 'shiratsuyu to', means as white dew, the common name for dew.
Second line, 'hito wa iedomo', means though people say so, a concession turning to how it really looks.
Third line, 'nobe mireba', means when I look at the fields, ba after the realis form giving a definite condition.
Fourth line, 'oku hana goto ni', means on each flower where it lies.
Final line, 'iro zo kawareru', is a binding in which zo closes on the attributive ru, stressing that the color changes.
Author: Kyōgoku Kanpaku-ke no Higo
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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