Matsukaze no fukamu kagiri wa uchihaete tayubeku mo arazu sakeru fujinami - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

松風の吹かむ限りはうちはへて
絶ゆべくもあらず咲ける藤波

Roma-ji: Matsukaze no fukamu kagiri wa uchihaete tayubeku mo arazu sakeru fujinami
English Translation: For as long a time
as the wind blows through the pines,
stretching on and on,
never likely to break off,
the wisteria waves bloom.
Meaning: As long as the wind blows through the pines, the wisteria will bloom on and on in trailing waves, never to fail.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Spring Poems 1067

Headnote: "A screen poem for the sixtieth-birthday celebration of the Cloistered Emperor on the twenty-eighth day of the ninth month of the fourth year of Enchō, provided by the Kyōgoku Consort: wisteria blossoms"
The poet says that as long as the wind blows through the pines, the wisteria blooms on and on in trailing clusters, never failing. The headnote shows it was written for a screen painting of wisteria at the sixtieth-birthday celebration that the Kyōgoku Consort held for Retired Emperor Uda in the fourth year of Enchō. Pairing the evergreen pine with the wisteria that twines about it, it celebrates the emperor's long life and the prosperity of the consort's Fujiwara house in the wisteria that never fails while the pine wind blows. From here to 1070, poems on wisteria blossoms continue.
The author, Ki no Tsurayuki, was the leading compiler of the Kokinshū, wrote its kana preface and the Tosa Diary. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "matsukaze no," means "the wind in the pines," bringing in the pine, a symbol of long life.
Second line, "fukamu kagiri wa," means "as long as it blows," with "mu" the attributive form of the conjectural auxiliary.
Third line, "uchihaete," means "stretching on and on," sharing the same line with the third line of 1079 in this book, "uchihaete," both being screen poems for birthday celebrations of long life.
Fourth line, "tayubeku mo arazu," means "with no chance of ending," a hypermetric line of eight syllables.
Final line, "sakeru fujinami," means "the wisteria waves in bloom," with "ru" the attributive form of the auxiliary "ri," ending on a noun.
Author: Ki no Tsurayuki
Source: Shui Wakashu
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