Waga yado to tanomu yoshino ni kimi shi iraba onaji kazashi o sashi koso wa seme - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

我が宿と頼む吉野に君し入らば
同じかざしをさしこそはせめ

Roma-ji: Waga yado to tanomu yoshino ni kimi shi iraba onaji kazashi o sashi koso wa seme
English Translation: Yoshino, which I
count upon to be my home—
if you go there too,
then the very same sprig of green
I too will wear beside you
Meaning: If you go into Yoshino, the place I count on as my own refuge, then I too will wear the same sprig in my hair and be there with you.
Commentary: Book Twelve Love Poems IV 809

Headnote: "Reply."
The poet says that if he goes into Yoshino, the place she relies on as her own home, she will wear the same sprig in her hair and stay with him. To a man who threatens to vanish into Yoshino, she wittily answers that in that case she too will share his lot.
It is the reply to the preceding poem, 808, taking up its "mountains of Yoshino" and answering that Yoshino is the very place she relies on.
The poet, Ise, was a daughter of Fujiwara no Tsugukage. She served Empress Onshi, consort of Emperor Uda, and received Uda's favor. Later she bore Nakatsukasa to Prince Atsuyoshi. She is one of the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals.

The first line, "Waga yado to," means "as my dwelling."
The second line, "tanomu yoshino ni," means "to Yoshino, on which I rely," taking up the "mountains of Yoshino" of the preceding poem.
The third line, "kimi shi iraba," means "if you go in," with "shi" an emphatic particle.
The fourth line, "onaji kazashi o," means "the same hair ornament," a figure for sharing the same lot as dwellers of the same mountain.
The last line, "sashi koso wa seme," means "I will surely wear it," with "koso" an emphatic binding particle closed by "me," the perfective form of the volitional "mu," completing the kakarimusubi.
Author: Ise
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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