Ōyodo no ura ni karihosu mirume dani kasumi ni taete kaeru karigane - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

大淀の浦に刈り干すみるめだに
霞に絶えて帰る雁がね

Roma-ji: Ōyodo no ura ni karihosu mirume dani kasumi ni taete kaeru karigane
English Translation: At Ōyodo Bay
even the mirume weed
they cut and lay to dry
is lost from sight in the haze,
and the wild geese wing away.
Meaning: Even the seaweed cut and dried at Ōyodo Bay is lost to sight in the haze, and the wild geese fly off homeward.
Commentary: Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Poems III 1725

Headnote: "On the Ōyodo scene painted on the sliding screens of the Saishō Shitennō-in."
A poem on Ōyodo Bay. Even the seaweed cut and dried at Ōyodo Bay is hidden by the haze, and the wild geese fly home. According to the headnote, it was written for the painting of Ōyodo on the sliding screens of the Saishō Shitennō-in. In the geese departing when even the chance to see is cut off, he entrusts a feeling of reluctant parting.
The author, "Teika Ason," is Fujiwara no Teika. The son of Fujiwara no Shunzei, he was one of the compilers of the Shin Kokinshū and later compiled the Shin Chokusenshū alone.
The Saishō Shitennō-in was a temple built at Shirakawa in the capital at the wish of Retired Emperor Go-Toba; its sliding screens were painted with famous places of the provinces, accompanied by poems of the leading poets. Ōyodo Bay is a shore in Ise Province and a famous poetic place.

The first line, "Ōyodo no," is a poetic place in Ise Province. The name of the famous place painted on the screen is set first.
The second line, "ura ni karihosu," means "cut and dried on the shore," depicting the work of fisherfolk.
In the third line, "mirume dani," "mirume" is a pivot word meaning both the seaweed mirume and "a chance to see," that is, to meet. "Dani" is an adverbial particle meaning "even that much."
The fourth line, "kasumi ni taete," means "cut off by the haze." Whereas in the preceding poem a visitor parted the haze to come, here the haze cuts off the chance to see.
The last line, "kaeru karigane," is the wild geese returning north. Ending on a noun, it leaves as an afterimage the geese leaving a shore where even the chance to see is lost.
Author: Fujiwara no Teika
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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