Waga yado no kakine ya haru o hedatsuran natsu kinikeri to miyuru unohana - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

我が宿の垣根や春を隔つらん
夏来にけりと見ゆる卯の花

Roma-ji: Waga yado no kakine ya haru o hedatsuran natsu kinikeri to miyuru unohana
English Translation: Can it be the hedge
around my dwelling that keeps
the springtime apart?
Summer has come, so they show,
the deutzia blossoms here.
Meaning: Is it the hedge around my house that holds spring apart from summer? Looking at the deutzia blooming there, it seems that summer has already arrived.
Commentary: Book Two Summer Poems 80

Headnote: "For a folding screen"
Seeing deutzia blooming on the hedge, the poet playfully wonders whether this hedge stands as the boundary between spring and summer. The wit lies in treating the hedge, whose role is to divide inside from outside, as the dividing line between seasons. According to the headnote, the poem was written to accompany a painting on a folding screen.
The author, written as Shitagau, is Minamoto no Shitagō. Of the Saga Genji line, he was a scholar and poet of the mid-Heian period. As one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber he took part in compiling the Gosenshū, and he compiled the dictionary Wamyō Ruijushō. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "waga yado no," means "of my house." The pairing of deutzia and hedges continues in 89, 90, 93 and 94 of this book, and this poem is its first appearance.
Second line, "kakine ya haru o," uses the questioning particle "ya," which is resolved by "ran" in the third line. It names spring as what the hedge keeps apart.
Third line, "hedatsuran," means "might it be keeping apart," with "ran" expressing conjecture about the present. The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "natsu kinikeri to," means "summer has come," with "keri" expressing the exclamation of sudden realization.
Final line, "miyuru unohana," ends on a noun, closing with the deutzia that announces summer. Where the preceding poem showed summer through the change of clothes, this one shows it through a flower.
Author: Minamoto no Shitagō
Source: Shui Wakashu
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