Shirokane no menuki no tachi o sagehakite Nara no miyako o neru ya ta ga ko zo - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

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Roma-ji: Shirokane no menuki no tachi o sagehakite Nara no miyako o neru ya ta ga ko zo
English Translation: Wearing at his side
his sword with silver fittings
hanging from his waist,
through the capital of Nara
who is the child strolling there?
Meaning: Wearing at his waist a sword with silver hilt fittings, who is the young man parading so grandly through the capital of Nara?
Commentary: Book Ten Kagura Songs 583

The poem asks whose child it is who strolls through the capital of Nara wearing a sword with silver hilt fittings. In the form of a question, it praises the splendid figure of a young man walking the capital's avenues with a gleaming sword. Where the preceding poem, 582, wished to have a sword, this poem depicts one walking with a sword at his side.
This book is devoted to kagura songs, and from its opening poem to 586 come songs sung at the court kagura, with neither author nor headnote recorded. Like the preceding poem, it is related to the torimono songs sung of the sword.

First line, "shirokane no," means "of silver," speaking of the beauty of the sword's ornaments.
Second line, "menuki no tachi o," means "a sword with hilt fittings." It shares the word "tachi" with the third line of the preceding poem, 582, "tachi mogana."
Third line, "sagehakite," means "wearing it hanging at his waist."
Fourth line, "Nara no miyako o," means "through the capital of Nara."
Final line, "neru ya ta ga ko zo," means "whose child is it parading," with "zo" at the end strengthening the question.
Source: Shui Wakashu
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