Uguisu no ito ni yoru chō tamayanagi fuki na midari so haru no yamakaze - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

鴬の糸に縒るてふ玉柳
吹きな乱りそ春の山風

Roma-ji: Uguisu no ito ni yoru chō tamayanagi fuki na midari so haru no yamakaze
English Translation: The warbler, they say,
twists it into threads of silk,
this jewel willow;
do not blow and tangle it,
O mountain wind of spring
Meaning: Do not blow and tangle the lovely willow, whose branches the warbler is said to twist into thread, O mountain wind of spring.
Commentary: Book Three Spring Poems III 131

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet calls on the spring mountain wind not to tangle the lovely willow whose branches the warbler is said to twist into thread. Likening willow branches to thread, the poem gracefully paints a spring scene of warbler, willow and wind.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us. The text gives the poet as "yomibito mo," which is treated here as "anonymous."
A sacred song in the Kokin Wakashū tells of the warbler twisting green willow into thread to sew a plum-blossom hat, and "uguisu no ito ni yoru chō" in this poem draws on that idea.

The first line, "Uguisu no," names the warbler that comes to sing in the willow. The warbler also appears in the opening poem, 81, and in 101.
In the second line, "chō" is a contraction of "to iu": "which they say the warbler twists into thread."
The third line, "tamayanagi," is an elegant name for the willow. A willow also appears in 94 of this book.
In the fourth line, "na … so" expresses prohibition: "do not blow and tangle it." The poem pauses here.
The last line, "haru no yamakaze," is an address ending on a noun, in inversion with the fourth line.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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