Karikurashi tanabatatsume ni yado karamu ama no kawara ni ware wa kinikeri - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

狩り暮らし棚機つ女に宿借らむ
天の河原に我は来にけり

Roma-ji: Karikurashi tanabatatsume ni yado karamu ama no kawara ni ware wa kinikeri
English Translation: Hunting all day long,
from the Weaver Maid tonight
lodging I will beg,
for to the River of Heaven's
banks I find that I have come.
Meaning: I have spent the whole day hunting until dusk. Tonight I will ask the Weaver Maid for a place to stay, for I find I have come all the way to the banks of the River of Heaven.
Commentary: Book Nine Travel Poems 418

Headnote: "When he went hunting in attendance on Prince Koretaka, they dismounted by a river at a place called Amanogawa and were drinking sake, when the prince said, 'Compose a poem on the idea of hunting and arriving at the banks of the River of Heaven, and then pass the cup,' so he composed this"
Having spent the day hunting and reached a place called Amanogawa, the River of Heaven, the poet treats it as the celestial river and proposes to ask the Weaver Maid for lodging. The wit of tying a place name to the Tanabata legend delights the drinking party.
According to the headnote, Narihira attended Prince Koretaka on a hunt, and while they drank by a river called Amanogawa, the prince told him to compose on the theme of hunting and reaching the banks of the River of Heaven before passing the cup. Amanogawa is a river at Katano in Kawachi, and the same poem appears in the Nagisa-no-in scene of episode eighty-two of The Tales of Ise.
The author, "Ariwara no Narihira no Ason," is Ariwara no Narihira. He was a son of Prince Abo, himself a son of Emperor Heizei, and his mother was Princess Ito, a daughter of Emperor Kanmu. He is counted among the Six Poetic Immortals and the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals, and is taken to be the hero of The Tales of Ise.

The first line, "karikurashi," means spending the day hunting until nightfall.
The second line names the Weaver Maid of Tanabata, widening the association from the place name Amanogawa to the weaver in the sky.
In the third line, "mu" is volitional, and the poem breaks here.
The fourth line overlays the banks of the Amanogawa in Kawachi with the banks of the River of Heaven in the sky. It is an inversion that gives the reason for seeking lodging afterward.
In the last line, "keri" expresses a sudden realization, playfully declaring that the hunt has brought him to the River of Heaven. The next poem, 419, is placed as a reply, and the two form a pair of exchanged poems.
Author: Ariwara no Narihira
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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