Yo ni fureba mata mo koekeri Suzukayama mukashi no ima ni naru ni ya aru ran - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

世にふれば又も越えけり鈴鹿山
昔の今になるにやあるらん

Roma-ji: Yo ni fureba mata mo koekeri Suzukayama mukashi no ima ni naru ni ya aru ran
English Translation: Living on in the world,
I have crossed it once again,
Suzuka Mountain—
has the past, I wonder, now
become the present once more?
Meaning: Having lived on in the world, I have crossed Suzuka Mountain once again. Has the past, I wonder, come round to be the present?
Commentary: Book Eight Miscellaneous Poems I 495

Headnote: "When the Ise Priestess went down in the reign of En'yū-in, crossing together with her mother, the former priestess"
The poet says that having lived on, she has crossed Suzuka Mountain again, and wonders whether the past has returned as the present. The headnote shows it was composed in the reign of En'yū-in when her daughter, Princess Noriko, went down to Ise as priestess, and the author, once a priestess herself, crossed Suzuka Mountain with her. She conveys the feeling of crossing again as a mother, after many years, the mountain she had crossed in youth as priestess, as past and present overlapping. The preceding poem, 494, is Emperor Murakami's, once her husband, on a priestess's journey, and the two poems share Suzuka Mountain side by side.
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.
The final line of the main text reads "naru ni ya aru ran," which does not match "naru ni ya aramu" in the line giving the reading. The main text is followed here.

First line, "yo ni fureba," means "living on in the world." "Fure" is a pivot word joining "fure," to pass the years, and "fure," to shake a bell, an associated word for the bell in "Suzuka." It also echoes the first line of 432 in this book, "yo ni furu ni."
Second line, "mata mo koekeri," means "I have crossed again," with "keri" expressing a sigh.
Third line, "Suzukayama," is the mountain on the border of Ise and Ōmi, the same line as in the preceding poem. The poem breaks here.
Fourth line, "mukashi no ima ni," means "the past into the present," referring to the time she crossed as priestess.
Final line, "naru ni ya aru ran," means "has it become," eight syllables, one too many. "Ya" is a questioning particle resolved by the attributive "ran," and in "naru" the ringing of the bell echoes.
Author: Princess Kishi
Source: Shui Wakashu
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