Ima wa shimo ho ni idenuramu azumaji no Iwata no ono no shino no osusuki - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

今はしも穂に出でぬらむ東路の
石田の小野の篠の小薄

Roma-ji: Ima wa shimo ho ni idenuramu azumaji no Iwata no ono no shino no osusuki
English Translation: By now surely they
must have put forth all their plumes
along the eastern road,
in the meadows of Iwata,
the slender pampas grasses
Meaning: By now they must have put out their plumes, the slender pampas grasses on the Iwata moor along the eastern road.
Commentary: Book Eleven Variant Poems 680

By now, the poet thinks, the slender pampas grasses on the Iwata moor along the road to the east must have put out their plumes. Imagining the grasses of a distant moor, the poet senses autumn deepening.
This poem is found only in a variant manuscript line of the anthology; in the variant order it is placed after 237 in Book Three. Poem 238 in Book Three, which follows, also sings of the flowering pampas grass in the fields beckoning to passersby.

First line, 'ima wa shimo', means by now surely, the particle shimo adding emphasis.
Second line, 'ho ni idenuramu', means they must have put out their plumes, the perfective nu with the present conjectural ramu; the poem breaks after the second line.
Third line, 'azumaji no', means along the road to the east.
Fourth line, 'Iwata no ono no', means of the Iwata moor, a famous place in Yamashiro.
Final line, 'shino no osusuki', means the slender pampas grass, closing on a noun. It is inverted with the lines before.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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