Momijiba ya tamoto naruran kannazuki shigururu goto ni iro no masareba - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

紅葉葉や袂なるらん神無月
時雨るるごとに色のまされば

Roma-ji: Momijiba ya tamoto naruran kannazuki shigururu goto ni iro no masareba
English Translation: Autumn leaves, I think,
must have become your sleeves,
in the godless month,
for each time the showers fall
their crimson deepens more.
Meaning: Have the autumn leaves become your sleeves? For with every shower of the tenth month their crimson deepens.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Autumn Poems 1140

Headnote: "In winter, sent to a monk who was in mourning for a parent"
The poet wonders whether the autumn leaves, whose color deepens with every shower, have become the sleeves of the monk. The headnote shows it was sent in winter to a monk in mourning for a parent. Overlaying the showers with tears, and the leaves that deepen in color with the showers with sleeves dyed crimson by tears of grief, it sympathizes with the sorrow of a monk who has lost a parent.
The author, written as "Mitsune," is Ōshikōchi no Mitsune, one of the compilers of the Kokinshū, who is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "momijiba ya," means "the autumn leaves," with "ya" a questioning binding particle answered by "ran" in the second line.
Second line, "tamoto naruran," means "have they become your sleeves," with "ran" the attributive form of the auxiliary of present conjecture. The poem breaks after this second line.
Third line, "kannazuki," is the tenth lunar month, sharing the same word with the third line of 1138 in this book, "kannazuki."
Fourth line, "shigururu goto ni," means "each time the showers fall," overlaying the showers with tears of sorrow. It continues the poems on showers from 1138 and 1139 before it.
Final line, "iro no masareba," means "since their color deepens," with "ba" attached to the perfective form giving the cause. Adding by inversion the reason for the second line, it expresses sleeves dyed crimson by tears of grief.
Author: Oshikochi no Mitsune
Source: Shui Wakashu
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