Ausaka no yūtsuke ni naku tori no ne o kikitogamezu zo yukisuginikeru - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

逢坂のゆふつけに鳴く鳥の音を
聞きとがめずぞ行き過ぎにける

Roma-ji: Ausaka no yūtsuke ni naku tori no ne o kikitogamezu zo yukisuginikeru
English Translation: At Ausaka
the cock crying as the barrier bird—
its voice
you did not stop to heed
but passed on by, I see
Meaning: At the Ōsaka Barrier the cock, the barrier bird, was crying, yet you paid no heed to its voice and passed on by.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems II 1126

Headnote: "When I was ill and staying in retreat at the Sekidera in Ōmi, Kan'in no Go passed along the road in front on a pilgrimage to Ishiyama, and someone told me she had just gone by, so I sent this after her."
The poet says that the one passing by paid no heed to the cry of the barrier cock at Ōsaka and went on. Likening himself in retreat at the Sekidera to the cock of the Ōsaka Barrier, he conveys, with a light jest, his reproach toward someone who passed close by without stopping.
According to the headnote, while he was ill and in retreat at the Sekidera in Ōmi, Kan'in no Go passed along the road in front on her way to worship at Ishiyamadera, and when someone told him she had just gone by, he sent this after her. Kan'in no Go was a lady of the Engi era, apparently the same as the poet Kan'in of 1130 and 1175 in this book.
The poet, "Lord Toshiyuki," is Fujiwara no Toshiyuki. A son of Fujiwara no Fujimaro, he rose to Commander of the Right Military Guards. Known as a fine calligrapher, he is counted among the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals, and the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu includes his poem "Suminoe no kishi ni yoru nami yoru sae ya."

The first line, "Ausaka no," means "of the Ōsaka Barrier," the hill of Ōsaka where the Sekidera stood. A place whose name holds "au," to meet, it sets off the fact that she passed without meeting him.
The second line, "yūtsuke ni naku," means "crying as the yūtsuke bird," referring to the cock that crows at the Ōsaka Barrier.
The third line, "tori no ne o," means "the voice of the bird," a figure for his own voice as he lay ill in the temple.
The fourth line, "kikitogamezu zo," means "without stopping to heed," with "zo" an emphatic binding particle closed by the attributive "keru" in the last line.
The last line, "yukisuginikeru," means "you passed on by," closing the "zo" of the fourth line. It takes the report in the headnote, "she has just gone by," straight into the poem.
Author: Fujiwara no Toshiyuki
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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