Mizukuki no oka no konoha o fukikaeshi tare ka wa kimi o koin to omoishi - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

水茎の岡の木の葉を吹き返し
誰かは君を恋ひんと思ひし

Roma-ji: Mizukuki no oka no konoha o fukikaeshi tare ka wa kimi o koin to omoishi
English Translation: On Mizukuki's
hill, the leaves upon the trees
the wind turns over:
who would ever have thought
that I should come to love you?
Meaning: As the wind turns over the leaves on the hill of Mizukuki, my heart has turned; who would ever have thought that I would come to love you?
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems I 1056

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown."
This is the ninth poem of the sequence on love that cannot meet, sung through places and things. As the wind turns over the leaves on the hill of Mizukuki, the heart has turned unexpectedly, and the speaker never thought to come to love this person. The headnote gives no topic, and the circumstances of composition are not recorded.
The author, "Anonymous," continues from the preceding poem and indicates a poem whose author's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "mizukuki no," calls up the hill of Mizukuki, sung as a poetic place.
The second line, "oka no konoha o," means "the leaves on the hill."
The third line, "fukikaeshi," means "the wind blows them over," and the first three lines lead to a heart unexpectedly turned.
In the fourth line, the rhetorical "ka wa" is resolved by "shi" in the last line.
The last line, "koin to omoishi," means "who thought I would love you? No one," I least of all. Where the poems before sang through water and wet sleeves, the scene shifts here to leaves turned over by the wind.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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