Waga yado no kakine ni ueshi nadeshiko wa hana ni sakanamu yosoetsutsu mimu - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

我が宿の垣根に植ゑし撫子は
花に咲かなむよそへつつ見む

Roma-ji: Waga yado no kakine ni ueshi nadeshiko wa hana ni sakanamu yosoetsutsu mimu
English Translation: At my house, the pinks
that I planted by the hedge,
I hope they will bloom,
for I'll gaze on them as you
and see in them the one I love
Meaning: I hope the pinks I planted along the hedge at my house will come into flower—I will gaze on them and see in them the one I love.
Commentary: Book Four Summer Poems 199

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet wishes the pinks planted by the hedge at his house would bloom, so that he may gaze on them as the one he loves. In place of someone he cannot meet, he seeks comfort by seeing that person in the flowers.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us. The text gives the author as "yomibito mo," but it is treated here as anonymous.
It is also included in Fujiwara no Teika's anthology Teika Hachidaishō.

The first line, "Waga yado no," means "at my house."
The second line, "kakine ni ueshi," means "that I planted by the hedge," with "shi" as the attributive form of the past auxiliary "ki." On the hedge where deutzia bloomed in the first part of this book, pinks are now planted.
The third line, "nadeshiko wa," names the pinks, the same flower as "tokonatsu" in the preceding poem, 198.
In the fourth line, "namu" is a particle expressing a wish directed at another: "I wish they would bloom." The poem pauses here.
In the last line, "yosou" means to liken, "tsutsu" expresses repetition, and "mu" intention: "I will gaze on them, seeing the one I love in them."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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