Urabito wa kasumi o ami ni musubeba ya nami no hana o mo tomete hiku ran - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

浦人は霞を網に結べばや
波の花をもとめて引くらん

Roma-ji: Urabito wa kasumi o ami ni musubeba ya nami no hana o mo tomete hiku ran
English Translation: Is it that the shore folk
have knotted up the spring haze
into a fishing net,
that even the waves' white flowers
they catch and draw in, I wonder?
Meaning: Have the shore folk knotted the spring haze into a net, I wonder, that they catch and haul in even the white flowers of the waves?
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Spring Poems 1060

Headnote: "For a screen painting showing people hauling in a net beneath the blossoms"
The poet wonders whether the shore folk have knotted the haze into a net, that they draw in even the flowers of the waves. The headnote shows it was written for a screen painting of people hauling in a net beneath flowering trees. Likening the trailing haze to a net and the white crests of the waves to flowers, it depicts the shore folk hauling their net beneath the blossoms as gathering the wave-flowers in a net of haze.
The author, Sugawara no Sukeaki, was a son of Sugawara no Fumitoki and a man of letters of the mid-Heian period.

First line, "urabito wa," means "the shore folk."
Second line, "kasumi o ami ni," means "the haze into a net," likening the trailing haze to a net.
Third line, "musubeba ya," means "is it because they have knotted," with "ba" after the perfective form expressing cause and "ya" a question resolved by "ran" in the final line.
Fourth line, "nami no hana o mo," means "even the flowers of the waves," likening the white wave crests to flowers. It shares "nami no hana" with the fourth line of the next poem, 1061, "nami no hana sae."
Final line, "tomete hiku ran," means "that they catch and haul them in," with "ran" the attributive form of the conjectural auxiliary.
Author: Sugawara no Sukeaki
Source: Shui Wakashu
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