Mizu no aya o oritachite kimu nugichirashi tanabatatsume ni koromo kasu yo wa - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

水のあやをおりたちて着む脱ぎ散らし
七夕つめに衣貸す夜は

Roma-ji: Mizu no aya o oritachite kimu nugichirashi tanabatatsume ni koromo kasu yo wa
English Translation: The water's damask,
wading in, I'll wear woven,
scattering my clothes,
for to the Weaver Star tonight
I lend all my robes away.
Meaning: I will wade down into the river and wear the damask of the water, scattering my clothes about, on this night when I lend my robes to the Weaver Star.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Autumn Poems 1091

Headnote: "For a screen of the Ninna era: a woman bathing in a river on the seventh day of the seventh month"
The poet says that on Tanabata night she will throw off her clothes to lend them to the Weaver Star and wade down into the river to wear the damask of the water. The headnote shows it was written for a screen painting of the Ninna era, depicting a woman bathing in a river on the seventh day of the seventh month. Set against the custom of offering robes at Tanabata, it playfully portrays the bathing woman as having lent her clothes to the Weaver.
The author, written as "Taira no Sadafumi," is Taira no Sadafun. Of the Kanmu Heishi line, he was known as Heichū, a poet famed for his amours, whose love affairs are told in the Heichū Monogatari. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets of the middle ages.

First line, "mizu no aya o," likens the pattern of ripples on the water to damask, a hypermetric line of six syllables.
Second line, "oritachite kimu," means "I will step down and wear it," with "ori" a pivot word joining "ori," to step down into the river, and "ori," to weave the damask, and "mu" an auxiliary of intention. The poem breaks after this second line.
Third line, "nugichirashi," means "scattering my clothes."
Fourth line, "tanabatatsume ni," means "to the Weaver Star," sharing the same word with the second line of the next poem, 1092, "tanabatatsume ni."
Final line, "koromo kasu yo wa," means "on the night I lend my robes," giving by inversion the reason for the upper verse. With the second line of 1087 in this book, "waga kasu ito wa," and the final line of 1088, "nao ya kasamashi," it shares the expression of lending something at Tanabata. "Damask," "weave," and "robe" form associated words.
Author: Taira no Sadabumi
Source: Shui Wakashu
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