Shirasuge no mano no hagihara tsuyu nagara oritsuru sode zo hito na togame so - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

白菅の真野の萩原露ながら
折りつる袖ぞ人なとがめそ

Roma-ji: Shirasuge no mano no hagihara tsuyu nagara oritsuru sode zo hito na togame so
English Translation: In Mano's clover field
where the white sedge grows thick,
still wet with dew,
I picked them, and so my sleeves;
let no one question me
Meaning: My sleeves are wet because I picked the bush clover of Mano, where white sedge grows, with the dew still on it; let no one question why they are wet.
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 229

The poet's sleeves are wet because he picked bush clover dew and all in the fields of Mano, not from tears, so he asks people not to question him. There is humor in heading off the suspicion that the wet sleeves come from the tears of love.
The bush clover fields of Mano have been a poetic place since the Man'yōshū, sung together with white sedge. Mano also appears in poem 239 in this book as 'the inlet of Mano'.
From poem 227 through poem 229 in this book come poems on the white dew of the fields and on bush clover.
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, 'shirasuge no', means where white sedge grows, used almost as a pillow word for Mano in the second line.
Second line, 'mano no hagihara', is the bush clover field of Mano, a poetic place famed for the flower. Mano also appears in poem 239 in this book.
Third line, 'tsuyu nagara', means with the dew still on.
Fourth line, 'oritsuru sode zo', means these are the sleeves that picked them, with emphatic zo. The poem breaks after the fourth line.
Final line, 'hito na togame so', is a prohibition in the form na ... so: let no one question it, denying that the wetness comes from tears.
Author: Minamoto no Nakamasa
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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