Fun'ya no Asayasu
Fun'ya no Asayasu, in Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Fun'ya no Asayasu also Bunya no Asayasu (文屋朝康, lived about the end of the 9th century — beginning of 10th century) — Japanese poet of Heian period.
He was the son of Fun'ya no Yasuhide
His poem in the Hyakunin Isshu is No. 37:
Shira tsuyu ni
Kaze no fukishiku
Aki no no wa
Tsuranuki-tomenu
Tama zo chiri keru.
This lovely morn the dewdrops flash
Like diamonds on the grass—
A blaze of sparkling jewels! But
The autumn wind, alas!
Scatters them as I pass.
tr. by William N. Porter, 1909
He is said to have composed this verse at the request of the Emperor Daigo in the year 900.