Yado mo se ni uenametsutsu zo ware wa miru maneku obana ni hito ya tomaru to - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

宿もせに植ゑなめつつぞ我は見る
招く尾花に人やとまると

Roma-ji: Yado mo se ni uenametsutsu zo ware wa miru maneku obana ni hito ya tomaru to
English Translation: Till my house is cramped,
I plant them row on row
and here I gaze on them—
wondering if at the beckoning plumes
someone might stop awhile
Meaning: I have planted pampas grass in rows until my house is cramped, and I gaze at it, wondering whether someone might stop at its beckoning plumes.
Commentary: Book Six Autumn Poems II 289

Headnote: "Reply."
She replies that she has planted pampas grass in rows until her house is cramped, and gazes at it in the hope that someone might stop at its beckoning plumes. Where the preceding poem recalled the past through the longing fern, this one sings, through the pampas grass, of a heart waiting for a visitor.
It forms an exchange with the preceding poem, 288.
The poet, Ise, was a daughter of Fujiwara no Tsugukage, governor of Ise, and served Fujiwara no Onshi, a consort of Emperor Uda. Favored by Emperor Uda, she bore him a son, and later had a daughter, Nakatsukasa, by Prince Atsuyoshi. She is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets, and her "Naniwagata mijikaki ashi no fushi no ma mo" is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
The text gives the second line as "uenametsutsu zo," which does not match "uenaetsutsu so" in the kana reading line. The wording of the text is followed here.

The first line, "Yado mo se ni," means "until my house is cramped."
In the second line, "name" is the continuative form of "namu," to line up: "planting them in rows." "Zo" is an emphatic particle.
The third line, "ware wa miru," means "I gaze on them," and "zo" in the second line with the attributive "miru" forms a kakarimusubi pattern. The poem pauses here. Against "kusa o koso mire," the last line of the preceding poem, she answers that she gazes on pampas grass.
The fourth line, "maneku obana ni," means "at the pampas plumes that beckon," likening the plumes swaying in the wind to a hand waving someone near.
In the last line, "ya" is an interrogative particle: "whether someone might stop." It stands in inversion with the third line, giving afterward the reason for planting the grass.
Author: Ise
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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