Tachiyorite mirubeki hito no areba koso aki no hayashi ni nishiki shikurame - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

立ち寄りて見るべき人のあればこそ
秋の林に錦敷くらめ

Roma-ji: Tachiyorite mirubeki hito no areba koso aki no hayashi ni nishiki shikurame
English Translation: It must be because
there is one who will stop by
and look on it all
that in the autumn forest
a brocade is spread below
Meaning: It must be because there is someone who will stop by to look that the autumn forest spreads its brocade beneath the trees.
Commentary: Book Seven Autumn Poems III 408

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet says that it must be because there is someone who will stop by to look that the autumn forest spreads its brocade. It likens the leaves strewn beneath the trees to brocade laid out to welcome a visitor.
Where the preceding poem sang of the sound of leaves falling at night, this one sees the strewn leaves as brocade. The next poem likewise likens leaves heaped beneath the trees to brocade.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Tachiyorite," means "stopping by."
The second line, "mirubeki hito no," means "someone who is to look."
The third line, "areba koso," means "precisely because there is," with "koso" an emphatic particle.
The fourth line, "aki no hayashi ni," means "in the autumn forest." It shares the word "hayashi," forest, with "kumo no hayashi no," the fourth line of the next poem.
In the last line, "rame" is the realis form of the conjectural auxiliary "ramu," forming a kakarimusubi pattern with "koso" in the third line: "it must spread its brocade."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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