Amanogawa ōgi no kaze ni kiri harete sora sumiwataru kasasagi no hashi - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

天の川扇の風に霧晴れて
空澄みわたる鵲の橋

Roma-ji: Amanogawa ōgi no kaze ni kiri harete sora sumiwataru kasasagi no hashi
English Translation: River of Heaven:
by the breeze from this fan
the mists are cleared away,
and the sky shines clear across
to the bridge of magpie wings.
Meaning: In the River of Heaven, the breeze of the fan clears away the mist, the sky grows clear from end to end, and the bridge of magpies stands out.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Autumn Poems 1089

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On the twenty-first day of the fifth month of Tenroku 4, Emperor En'yū went to the First-Rank Princess and played a game of ranko; as the forfeit for the loss, on the seventh day of the seventh month, fans were presented from the princess to the ladies' hall of the palace, and this was woven into the gauze pasted on them"
The poet says that the fan's breeze clears the mist from the River of Heaven, and in the clear sky appears the magpie bridge, said to be made by magpies joining their wings so that the two stars may meet. The headnote is the same as that of the preceding poem, 1088, and this too was woven into the gauze pasted on the fans presented as the forfeit for the ranko game. The fan's breeze that the preceding poem offered to lend the two stars here becomes a wind that sweeps away the mist and aids their meeting.
The author is Nakatsukasa, the daughter of Prince Atsuyoshi, son of Emperor Uda, and the poet Ise, famed as a poet like her mother. She is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "Amanogawa," is the same word as the first line of the preceding poem, 1088.
Second line, "ōgi no kaze ni," means "by the breeze of the fan," sharing the same words with the fourth line of the preceding poem, 1088, "ōgi no kaze o," and binding the two poems together.
Third line, "kiri harete," means "the mist clears." It echoes the fourth lines of 1095 in this book, "hatsuaki kiri no," and of 1096, "aki tatsu kiri mo," in singing of autumn mist.
Fourth line, "sora sumiwataru," means "the sky grows clear from end to end," with "wataru" expressing extension over the whole, forming associated words with "hashi," bridge, in the final line.
Final line, "kasasagi no hashi," is the bridge said to be made over the River of Heaven by magpies joining their wings on Tanabata night, the poem closing on a noun.
Author: Nakatsukasa
Source: Shui Wakashu
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