Ōmi no ya kagami no yama o tatetareba kanete zo miyuru kimi ga chitose wa - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

近江のや鏡の山を立てたれば
かねてぞ見ゆる君が千年は

Roma-ji: Ōmi no ya kagami no yama o tatetareba kanete zo miyuru kimi ga chitose wa
English Translation: Of Ōmi, ah,
Mount Kagami, the mirror,
since it stands set up,
already it is seen there:
your thousand years, my lord.
Meaning: Because Mount Kagami, the mirror of Ōmi, stands raised there, your reign of a thousand years can already be seen reflected in it.
Commentary: Book Twenty Poems of the Bureau of Court Song 1086

Headnote: "Kagura Songs: Kaeshimono Song"
Seeing Mount Kagami in Ōmi as a mirror, the singer says that because it stands set up, the lord's reign of a thousand years can already be seen reflected in it. A witty congratulatory poem that makes use of "mirror" in the mountain's name, it closes the kaeshimono group.
The author, recorded as "Ōtomo Kuronushi," is Ōtomo no Kuronushi. He is said to have come from the Ōtomo no Suguri family of Shiga District in Ōmi and is counted among the Six Poetic Immortals. The kana preface of the Kokin Wakashū judges him: "His style is rustic, like a woodcutter with a load of firewood resting in the shade of blossoms."
Kaeshimono songs are thought to be songs sung in a changed musical mode within the kagura. They run from poem 1081 to 1086, and from 1082 onward each of the five carries a left-hand note saying it was presented by a province at a Great Thanksgiving Festival (daijōe).
The left-hand note says, "This is the song of Ōmi at the daijōe of the present emperor," the Great Thanksgiving of Emperor Daigo, who commissioned the Kokin Wakashū, for which Ōmi presented it. The daijōe was the first harvest festival held by a newly enthroned emperor, and the provinces chosen as Yuki and Suki presented songs that named places in their own lands.

The first line, "of Ōmi, ah," adds no and the exclamatory ya to the province's name for rhythm, marking the land that offers the song.
The second line, "Mount Kagami," names the mountain in Ōmi on the border of today's Ryūō Town and Yasu City, Shiga, treating the "mirror" in its name as a real mirror.
The third line, "since it stands set up," overlays setting up a mirror with the mountain rising tall; ba marks a confirmed cause.
The fourth line, "already it is seen," resolves the binding particle zo in the attributive miyuru; mirror and seen are associated words. It answers "looking ahead a thousand years" in 1069 of this book, sharing kanete and chitose.
The last line, "your thousand years, my lord," is inverted with the fourth line, placing the object of blessing last for emphasis.
Author: Ōtomo no Kuronushi
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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