Koto no ne ni mine no matsukaze kayou rashi izure no o yori shirabe someken - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

琴の音に峰の松風通ふらし
いづれのをより調べ初めけん

Roma-ji: Koto no ne ni mine no matsukaze kayou rashi izure no o yori shirabe someken
English Translation: With the koto's notes
the wind in the peak's pines blends,
so it seems to be—
from which string, from which ridge,
did this melody begin?
Meaning: The wind in the pines on the peak seems to blend with the sound of the koto. From which string, from which ridge, did this melody first begin?
Commentary: Book Eight Miscellaneous Poems I 451

Headnote: "When the Ise Priestess held a Kōshin vigil at the Nonomiya, composed on the topic "Wind in the Pines Enters the Night Koto""
The poet says that the wind in the pines on the peak seems to blend with the sound of the koto, and wonders from which string, or from which ridge, the melody began. The headnote shows it was composed on the topic "Wind in the Pines Enters the Night Koto" when her daughter, the Ise Priestess, kept a Kōshin vigil at the Nonomiya. Through the pivot word joining "string" and "ridge," she deftly conveys a night scene in which the sounds of wind and koto melt together, and it is renowned as her representative work. The next poem, 452, was composed at the same gathering.
The author, the Consort Who Had Been Ise Priestess, is Princess Kishi. A daughter of Prince Shigeakira, son of Emperor Daigo, she served as Ise Priestess, then became a consort of Emperor Murakami and bore Princess Noriko. She is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.
This poem was also taken into the Wakan Rōeishū and was later prized as a model for poems on the koto and wind in the pines.

First line, "koto no ne ni," means "with the sound of the koto."
Second line, "mine no matsukaze," means "the wind in the pines of the peak." Wind blowing in pines also appears in 453 and 454 of this book.
Third line, "kayou rashi," means "seems to blend," with "rashi" an auxiliary of inference from evidence. The poem breaks here.
Fourth line, "izure no o yori," means "from which string." "O" is a pivot word joining "o," the koto string, and "o," the ridge of the peak, binding koto and peak in a single word.
Final line, "shirabe someken," means "did it begin to play," with "ken" an auxiliary of past conjecture. It conveys wind and koto so merged that one cannot tell which began to sound first.
Author: Princess Kishi
Source: Shui Wakashu
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