Saoshika no tomo madowaseru koe su nari tsuma ya koishiki aki no yamabe ni - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

さをしかのとも惑はせる声すなり
妻や恋しき秋の山辺に

Roma-ji: Saoshika no tomo madowaseru koe su nari tsuma ya koishiki aki no yamabe ni
English Translation: A stag can be heard
calling with a voice that leaves
his companions lost;
is it for his mate he longs,
in the autumn mountainside?
Meaning: I hear a stag calling in a voice that bewilders his companions; does he long for his mate, there on the autumn hillside?
Commentary: Book Seven Names of Things 428

Headnote: "On the word kanoto (the younger metal)"
The poet hears a stag on the autumn hillside calling in a voice that bewilders his companions, and wonders whether he longs for his mate. Within an autumn poem on the voice of a stag yearning for its mate, the name "kanoto" given in the headnote is hidden in the run of sounds "shika no to" from the first to the second line. According to the headnote, it is a poem working in the word "kanoto."
The monk Egyō was a monk of the mid-Heian period said to have served as lecturer at the provincial temple of Harima. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Later Immortal Poets.

First line, "saoshika no," means "the stag." Its final "ka no" with "to" at the start of the second line hides the name "kanoto."
Second line, "tomo madowaseru," means "that bewilders his companions." Following "kanoesaru" in the preceding poem, a name related to the cyclical signs is sung of.
Third line, "koe su nari," means "a voice is heard," with "nari" an auxiliary of inference from sound. The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "tsuma ya koishiki," means "does he long for his mate," with "ya" resolved by the attributive "koishiki."
Final line, "aki no yamabe ni," means "on the autumn hillside," giving by inversion the place where he calls.
Author: Egyō
Source: Shui Wakashu
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