Toshi mo yoshi kogai mo etari Ōkuni no sato tanomoshiku omohoyuru kana - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

年もよし蚕飼も得たり大国の
里頼もしく思ほゆるかな

Roma-ji: Toshi mo yoshi kogai mo etari Ōkuni no sato tanomoshiku omohoyuru kana
English Translation: The year's harvest is good,
and the silkworms too have thrived;
in Ōkuni's
village, how reassuring
is the feeling in my heart!
Meaning: The harvest this year is good, and the silkworms too have done well; how reassuring the village of Ōkuni seems!
Commentary: Book Ten Kagura Songs 614

Headnote: "Fūzoku songs for the Great Thanksgiving Festival of the first year of Tenroku: the village of Ōkuni"
The poem says that since the harvest is good this year and the silkworms have thrived, the village of Ōkuni seems reassuring indeed. Laying the sense of a great and rich land over the place name Ōkuni, "Great Land," it celebrates the prosperity of the new reign in the bounty of grain and silk.
The headnote, "Fūzoku songs for the Great Thanksgiving Festival of the first year of Tenroku," shows that the poem was offered at the Great Thanksgiving Festival held in the first year of Tenroku upon the accession of Emperor En'yū. From here to 617, as in the earlier sequence of the first year of Anna, poems on place names follow, and some of the same names are sung at both festivals.
The author, written as "Kanemori," is Taira no Kanemori. A son of Prince Atsuyuki, of the line of Emperor Kōkō, he left the imperial family and took the name Taira. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets and is known for his poem "shinoburedo" in the Hyakunin Isshu, with which he competed against Mibu no Tadami at the Tentoku Palace Poetry Contest.

First line, "toshi mo yoshi," means "the year's harvest is good," with "toshi" meaning the rice crop. The poem breaks after this first line.
Second line, "kogai mo etari," means "the silkworms too have thrived," with "tari" a perfective auxiliary. The line breaks here too, pairing with the first line.
Third line, "Ōkuni no," means "of Ōkuni," the place name given as the topic, layered with the sense of a great and rich land.
Fourth line, "sato tanomoshiku," means "the village reassuring." It shares the word "sato" with the second line of the next poem, 615, "Yoshida no sato no."
Final line, "omohoyuru kana," means "how it seems so," with "kana" exclamatory.
Author: Taira no Kanemori
Source: Shui Wakashu
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