Akikaze yo tanabatatsume ni koto towan ikanaru yo ni ka awan to suran - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

秋風よ七夕つめに言問はん
いかなる世にか逢はんとすらん

Roma-ji: Akikaze yo tanabatatsume ni koto towan ikanaru yo ni ka awan to suran
English Translation: O wind of autumn,
to the Weaver Star for me
I would put a question:
in what age of all the world
does she mean to meet her love?
Meaning: O autumn wind, I would ask the Weaver Star: in what age of the world does she mean to meet her love?
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Autumn Poems 1092

Headnote: "Composed on the seventh day of the seventh month"
Calling on the autumn wind, the poet says he would ask the Weaver Star in what age of the world she means to meet her love. The headnote shows it was composed on the seventh day of the seventh month. Taking the autumn wind, which begins to blow around Tanabata, as a messenger, it turns his thoughts to the Weaver, who waits for a meeting that comes but once a year.
The author is Fujiwara no Yoshitaka, son of the regent Fujiwara no Koretada and father of Fujiwara no Yukinari, famed as a calligrapher. He died of smallpox in Ten'en 2 (974) at only twenty-one. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets of the middle ages.

First line, "akikaze yo," is an address to the autumn wind, which was held to begin blowing around Tanabata.
Second line, "tanabatatsume ni," means "to the Weaver Star," sharing the same word with the fourth line of the preceding poem, 1091, "tanabatatsume ni."
Third line, "koto towan," means "I would ask," with "n" an auxiliary of intention. The poem breaks after this third line.
Fourth line, "ikanaru yo ni ka," means "in what age," with "ka" a questioning binding particle.
Final line, "awan to suran," means "does she mean to meet," with "ran," the attributive form of the auxiliary of present conjecture, resolving the "ka" of the fourth line.
Author: Fujiwara no Yoshitaka
Source: Shui Wakashu
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