Hashitaka no okie ni sen to kamaetaru oshi ayukasu na nezumi toru beku - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

はし鷹のをき餌にせんと構へたる
おしあゆかすな鼠取るべく

Roma-ji: Hashitaka no okie ni sen to kamaetaru oshi ayukasu na nezumi toru beku
English Translation: What I set out there
as a lure to call
the sparrow hawk,
do not push or shake it,
so a rat may be caught.
Meaning: Do not push and shake what I set out as bait to lure the sparrow hawk, so that a rat may be caught.
Commentary: Book Seven Names of Things 410

Headnote: "Oshiayu (pressed sweetfish)"
The poet warns not to push and shake the bait set out to lure the sparrow hawk, so that a rat may be caught. Singing of the care taken by one who keeps hawks, the poem hides the name of pressed sweetfish given in the headnote in the run of sounds "oshi ayukasu na" in the fourth 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, "hashitaka no," means "of the sparrow hawk," a small hawk.
Second line, "okie ni sen to," means "to make it bait to lure," with "n" an auxiliary of intention.
Third line, "kamaetaru," means "what I have set out."
Fourth line, "oshi ayukasu na," means "do not push and shake," with "na" a prohibitive particle. It hides the name "oshiayu," and the poem pauses here. Following the fire-dried sweetfish of the preceding poem, the sweetfish is sung of.
Final line, "nezumi toru beku," means "so that a rat may be caught," giving by inversion the reason for the fourth line.
Author: Fujiwara no Sukemi
Source: Shui Wakashu
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