Naniwagata ouru tamamo o karisome no ama to zo ware wa narinu beranaru - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

難波潟生ふる玉藻をかりそめの
海人とぞ我はなりぬべらなる

Roma-ji: Naniwagata ouru tamamo o karisome no ama to zo ware wa narinu beranaru
English Translation: At Naniwa Bay,
cutting the jeweled seaweed there,
just for a while
a fisherman is what I
seem likely to become.
Meaning: At Naniwa Bay, cutting the lovely seaweed that grows there, it seems I shall become a fisherman, if only for a little while.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems I 916

Headnote: "Composed when he had gone to Naniwa"
Composed on a trip to Naniwa. Charmed by the lovely seaweed of Naniwa Bay, the poet says he may become, for a while, one of the fishermen who cut it, expressing delight in the scenery of his travels.
The author, "Tsurayuki," is Ki no Tsurayuki, son of Ki no Mochiyuki, the leading compiler of the Kokin Wakashū and author of its kana preface. He is one of the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals.

First line "naniwagata" is the same opening as poem 913 in this book, pointing to the tidal flat of Naniwa in Settsu.
Second line "ouru tamamo o" is the lovely seaweed growing there; tama is an honorific of beauty.
Third line "karisome no" is a pivot word joining "cutting" seaweed and karisome, "temporary."
Fourth line "ama to zo ware wa" stresses with zo becoming a fisherman, reaching to the last line.
Fifth line "narinu beranaru" closes zo with beranaru, the attributive of beranari: it seems I shall become one.
Author: Ki no Tsurayuki
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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