Miyama idete yowa ni ya kitsuru hototogisu akatsuki kakete koe no kikoyuru - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

み山出でて夜半にや来つる郭公
暁かけて声の聞こゆる

Roma-ji: Miyama idete yowa ni ya kitsuru hototogisu akatsuki kakete koe no kikoyuru
English Translation: Leaving the deep hills,
did you come in the midnight,
cuckoo, I wonder?
Until the breaking of dawn
I can hear your voice resound.
Meaning: Did you leave the deep mountains and come here in the middle of the night, cuckoo? Your voice can be heard on into the dawn.
Commentary: Book Two Summer Poems 101

Headnote: "For a poetry contest in the reign of Tenryaku"
Hearing the cuckoo's voice on into the dawn, the poet wonders whether it left the deep mountains and arrived during the night. Imagining the bird's journey from its voice alone, the poem suggests that the poet has been listening all night long. According to the headnote, like the preceding poem, it was composed for a poetry contest held in the Tenryaku era of Emperor Murakami.
Taira no Kanemori, of a Taira line descended from Emperor Kōkō, was a poet of the mid-Heian period. He is known for his performance at the palace poetry contest of the fourth year of Tentoku and is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "miyama idete," means "leaving the deep mountains," carrying on the conceit of the preceding poem's fourth line, "miyama o izuru."
Second line, "yowa ni ya kitsuru," means "did you come in the night," with the questioning particle "ya" resolved by "tsuru," the attributive of the perfective auxiliary "tsu." The poem pauses here.
Third line, "hototogisu," is the cuckoo that has left the mountains and come to the village.
Fourth line, "akatsuki kakete," means "on into the dawn." Whereas the preceding poem sang of this morning's first song, this one widens the span of time from midnight to daybreak.
Final line, "koe no kikoyuru," means "the voice can be heard," ending in the attributive form to leave a lingering resonance.
Author: Taira no Kanemori
Source: Shui Wakashu
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