Nani to ka ya kuki no sugata wa omōete ayashiku hana no na koso wasurure - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

なにとかやくきの姿はおもほえて
あやしく花の名こそ忘るれ

Roma-ji: Nani to ka ya kuki no sugata wa omōete ayashiku hana no na koso wasurure
English Translation: What was it called, now?
The shape of its stem
comes back to my mind,
yet strangely, of the flower
it is the name I forget.
Meaning: What was it called? I remember the shape of its stem, yet strangely, it is the flower's name I forget.
Commentary: Book Seven Names of Things 403

Headnote: "Kayakuki (kayakuki bird)"
The poet muses, "What was it called?" for he recalls the shape of its stem but has strangely forgotten the flower's name. In a book of poems hiding names, this witty poem sings of forgetting a name, and it hides the name "kayakuki" given in the headnote in the run of sounds "ka ya kuki" from the first to the second line. The headnote names the thing hidden in the poem.
The author, written as Sukemi, is Fujiwara no Sukemi. A son of Fujiwara no Hirotsune, he was a mid-Heian poet known as Tōroku. He excelled at poems hiding the names of things, and his personal collection is the Tōrokushū.

First line, "nani to ka ya," means "what was it called," with "ka ya" expressing a question. With "kuki" at the start of the second line, it hides the name "kayakuki."
Second line, "kuki no sugata wa," means "the shape of its stem." Following the preceding poem, the name of a bird is sung of.
Third line, "omōete," means "comes to mind."
Fourth line, "ayashiku hana no," means "strangely, of the flower." 361 of this book sang of giving a flower a name, while here the poet forgets one, so the two form a pair around the names of flowers.
Final line, "na koso wasurure," means "it is the name I forget," with "koso" resolved by the perfective "wasurure."
Author: Fujiwara no Sukemi
Source: Shui Wakashu
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