Fudaraku no minami no kishi ni dō tatete ima zo sakaen kita no fujinami - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

補陀落の南の岸に堂建てて
今ぞ栄えん北の藤波

Roma-ji: Fudaraku no minami no kishi ni dō tatete ima zo sakaen kita no fujinami
English Translation: On Fudaraku's
southern shore we raise a hall,
and now it will thrive—
now the northern wisteria
will surge in waves of bloom.
Meaning: A hall is raised on the southern shore of Fudaraku, and now, surely, the wisteria of the north will flourish.
Commentary: Book Nineteen Poems on the Gods 1854

Headnote: "It is said this poem was composed by the Enomoto Deity of Kasuga when construction of the Nan'endō of Kōfukuji was begun."
This is the third poem in the sequence of poems composed by the gods. A hall is raised on the southern shore of Fudaraku, the paradise of Kannon, and the wisteria of the north will now flourish. According to the left note, the Enomoto Deity of Kasuga composed it when construction of the Nan'endō at Kōfukuji began. Likening the building of the hall to Kannon's paradise, it foretells the prosperity of the Fujiwara.
The poem has no headnote; a left note follows it instead. In this text the left note is placed under the number of the next poem, but its content shows that it belongs to this poem, so it is cited here as the headnote.
No author is named in the original. According to the left note, the poem is regarded as the utterance of the god of the Enomoto Shrine, an auxiliary shrine of Kasuga. Kasuga was the clan shrine of the Fujiwara, and Kōfukuji was their clan temple.
The Nan'endō, the Southern Octagonal Hall of Kōfukuji, is said to have been built by Fujiwara no Fuyutsugu of the Northern House of the Fujiwara, and it enshrines an image of Kannon as its principal deity.

The first line, "Fudaraku no," names the mountain in the southern sea where the Bodhisattva Kannon is said to dwell. It answers the fact that the principal image of the Nan'endō is Kannon.
The second line, "minami no kishi ni," takes up the belief that Fudaraku lies in the southern sea and lays over it the "south" of the Nan'endō.
The third line, "dō tatete," refers to the building of the Nan'endō. By speaking of raising a hall on the shore of Kannon's paradise, it lays the earthly hall directly over the Pure Land.
The fourth line, "ima zo sakaen," means "now surely it will flourish." The particle "zo" is closed by "n," the attributive form of the conjectural "mu," in kakari-musubi. It shares the verb "sakayu" with "sakayubeshi" in poem 1852 of this book; in both, a god foretells prosperity.
The last line, "kita no fujinami," likens the Northern House of the Fujiwara to wisteria clusters rippling like waves. It sets "north" against the "south" of the second line and ends on a noun.
Author: Kasuga Enomoto Deity (per the left note)
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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