Aki no ta no karisome fushi mo shitekeru ka itazura ine o nani ni tsumamashi - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

秋の田のかりそめ臥しもしてけるか
いたづらいねを何につままし

Roma-ji: Aki no ta no karisome fushi mo shitekeru ka itazura ine o nani ni tsumamashi
English Translation: Like autumn fields,
reaped, I lay a passing while
in a makeshift sleep—
what to stack this wasted rest on,
this useless rice of sleep
Meaning: Like the reaping of an autumn field, I have spent the night in a makeshift sleep. On what am I to stack this wasted sleep, like sheaves of useless rice?
Commentary: Book Twelve Love Poems IV 845

Headnote: "When he went to someone's house and was not invited in, he spent the night lying on the veranda and then sent this."
The poet says he has slept a makeshift sleep like the reaping of an autumn field, and wonders on what he should stack this wasted sleep. Having visited a woman and spent the night on the veranda without being let in, he renders the futility of it playfully through autumn harvesting and rice.
According to the headnote, he went to a woman's house but was not called inside, so he lay on the veranda until dawn and afterward sent this poem. It is the sixth in the sequence singing of autumn images.
The poet, Fujiwara no Narikuni, is a figure whose career is not known in detail.

The first line, "Aki no ta no," means "of the autumn field," leading into "kari" in the second line, since fields are reaped.
The second line, "karisome fushi mo," means "a makeshift sleep," with "kari" meaning both "reaping" and "temporary."
The third line, "shitekeru ka," means "how I have done so," with "ka" expressing emotion. The poem pauses here.
The fourth line, "itazura ine o," means "this wasted sleep," with "ine" meaning both "sleep" and "rice plant."
The last line, "nani ni tsumamashi," means "on what should I stack it," "tsumu" meaning to stack sheaves, with "mashi" expressing hesitation.
Author: Fujiwara no Narikuni
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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