Takashima ya Mio no nakayama soma tatete tsukurikasaneyo chiyo no namikura - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

高島や三尾の中山杣立てて
作り重ねよ千代の並倉

Roma-ji: Takashima ya Mio no nakayama soma tatete tsukurikasaneyo chiyo no namikura
English Translation: From Takashima,
from Mio's middle mountain,
cut the timber down,
and build them, one upon one,
rows of storehouses for all time.
Meaning: From the middle mountain of Mio in Takashima cut timber and build, one after another, rows of storehouses to stand for a thousand ages.
Commentary: Book Ten Kagura Songs 605

Headnote: "Fūzoku songs for the Great Thanksgiving Festival of the first year of Anna: Mount Mio"
The poem bids that timber be cut from the middle mountain of Mio in Takashima to build rows of storehouses lasting a thousand ages. In the image of storehouses for rich harvests rising one after another, it celebrates the abundance and permanence of the reign. Following the preceding poem, 604, which saw a tribute storehouse in the name of Mount Ōkura, it sings of building storehouses one upon another.
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.

First line, "Takashima ya," means "Takashima" in Ōmi Province, with "ya" an interjectory particle that sets the rhythm.
Second line, "Mio no nakayama," means "the middle mountain of Mio" in Takashima, the place name given as the topic.
Third line, "soma tatete," means "cutting timber from it as a timber mountain."
Fourth line, "tsukurikasaneyo," means "build them one upon another," in the imperative. The poem breaks after this fourth line, and the final line names what is to be built in inverted order.
Final line, "chiyo no namikura," means "rows of storehouses for a thousand ages," ending on a noun. It links through the word for storehouse with the second line of the preceding poem, 604, "Ōkurayama wa."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shui Wakashu
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