Kotoshi oi no matsu wa nanuka ni narinikeri nokori no hodo o omoi koso yare - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

今年生ひの松は七日になりにけり
残りのほどを思ひこそやれ

Roma-ji: Kotoshi oi no matsu wa nanuka ni narinikeri nokori no hodo o omoi koso yare
English Translation: The pine that sprouted
only this year has now reached
its seventh day;
how my thoughts go out to all
the years that remain ahead.
Meaning: The young pine that sprouted this year has reached its seventh day; how my thoughts go out to the long years still to come.
Commentary: Book Five Celebration Poems 269

Headnote: "On the seventh night after a birth at the house of Fujiwara no Sanesuke, Major Captain of the Right"
Likening a child born this year to a pine seedling sprouted this year, the poet celebrates its reaching the seventh day and thinks of the long years remaining in a pine's thousand-year span. Onto the young pine only seven days old he lays the boundless life to come. According to the headnote, it was composed for the celebration of the seventh night after a birth at the house of Fujiwara no Sanesuke, Major Captain of the Right.
The author, written as Taira no Kanemori in kana, is Taira no Kanemori. Of a Taira line descended from Emperor Kōkō, he 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, "kotoshi oi no," means "sprouted this year," and has six syllables, one more than the norm. It likens the newborn to a seedling.
Second line, "matsu wa nanuka ni," means "the pine, to its seventh day," pairing seven days with the pine said to live a thousand years.
Third line, "narinikeri," means "has become," with "ni" perfective and "keri" exclamatory. The poem pauses here. It takes up "nanuka narikeru" in the final line of the preceding poem.
Fourth line, "nokori no hodo o," means "the remaining span," the length left of the pine's thousand years after seven days.
Final line, "omoi koso yare," means "how my thoughts go out," with the emphatic particle "koso" resolved by the perfective "yare." The fourth line of 217 and the final line of 230 in Book Four also say "omoi koso yare," reaching toward something far away, but here the thoughts reach toward the distant years of the future.
Author: Taira no Kanemori
Source: Shui Wakashu
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