Miru goto ni aki ni mo naru kana Tatsutahime momiji somu to ya yama mo kiruran - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

見るごとに秋にもなるかな竜田姫
紅葉染むとや山も着るらん

Roma-ji: Miru goto ni aki ni mo naru kana Tatsutahime momiji somu to ya yama mo kiruran
English Translation: Each time I look,
it grows the more like autumn—
is it that the hills
put on the robes the goddess
of Tatsuta dyes with leaves
Meaning: Each time I look, it grows more like autumn—is it because the goddess of Tatsuta dyes the autumn leaves that the hills put on her robes?
Commentary: Book Seven Autumn Poems III 378

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet says that each time one looks, autumn deepens, and wonders whether, since the autumn goddess of Tatsuta dyes the leaves, the hills are wearing the robes she has dyed. It likens the coloring hills to figures dressed in the goddess's dyed garments.
Following the two poems before it on the autumn leaves of Mount Tatsuta, it brings in the goddess of autumn who bears the mountain's name.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Miru goto ni," means "each time I look."
The second line, "aki ni mo naru kana," means "how it turns to autumn," and has an extra syllable. "Kana" is an exclamatory particle, and the poem pauses here.
The third line, "Tatsutahime," is the goddess who governs autumn and is said to dye the leaves of the trees; she is regarded as Mount Tatsuta deified.
In the fourth line, "ya" is an interrogative particle: "is it because she dyes the leaves?"
In the last line, "ran" is an auxiliary of conjecture forming a kakarimusubi pattern with "ya" in the fourth line: "do the hills wear them too?"
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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