Mitsugi tsumu Ōkurayama wa tokiwa nite iro mo kawarazu yorozuyo zo hemu - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

貢ぎ積むおほくら山は常盤にて
色も変はらず万代ぞ経む

Roma-ji: Mitsugi tsumu Ōkurayama wa tokiwa nite iro mo kawarazu yorozuyo zo hemu
English Translation: Mount Ōkura,
the great storehouse where tribute
is piled, evergreen,
its color never changing,
shall pass through ten thousand ages.
Meaning: Mount Ōkura, "Great Storehouse," where tribute is piled high, stays evergreen; its color unchanging, it will pass through ten thousand ages.
Commentary: Book Ten Kagura Songs 604

Headnote: "Fūzoku songs for the Great Thanksgiving Festival of the first year of Anna: Mount Ōkura"
The poem says that Mount Ōkura, which bears the name of a great storehouse piled with tribute, will stay evergreen and pass unchanged through ten thousand ages. Pivoting the place name Ōkura on the court's "great storehouse," where tribute from the provinces was kept, it celebrates a reign full of rich tribute that will continue unchanged like an evergreen mountain.
The headnote, "Fūzoku songs for the Great Thanksgiving Festival of the first year of Anna," shows that the poem was offered at the Great Thanksgiving Festival held in the first year of Anna upon the accession of Emperor Reizei. At this festival, poems working in the place names of the provinces chosen as Yuki and Suki were offered, and from here to 608 poems follow whose topics are the names of mountains and shores in those provinces.
The author, written as "Yoshinobu," is Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu. He served as chief priest of the Ise Shrine and, as one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber, took part in compiling the Gosenshū. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "mitsugi tsumu," means "where tribute is piled," leading into "Ōkura" in the second line.
Second line, "Ōkurayama wa," is a pivot word: "Ōkura" means the place name Mount Ōkura given as the topic and the "great storehouse" where tribute was kept.
Third line, "tokiwa nite," means "being evergreen," speaking of the mountain's trees that do not change color.
Fourth line, "iro mo kawarazu," means "its color unchanging," the same phrasing as the second line of 602, "iro mo kawaranu."
Final line, "yorozuyo zo hemu," means "will pass through ten thousand ages," with the binding particle "zo" resolved by the attributive form of the conjectural auxiliary "mu."
Author: Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
Source: Shui Wakashu
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