Kokorozashi fukaki migiwa ni karu komo wa chitose no satsuki itsuka wasuren - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

心ざし深きみぎはに刈るこもは
千歳の五月いつか忘れん

Roma-ji: Kokorozashi fukaki migiwa ni karu komo wa chitose no satsuki itsuka wasuren
English Translation: With affection deep
cut at the deep water's edge,
this wild rice, I say,
in a thousand years of Mays,
on what fifth could you forget?
Meaning: This wild rice, cut at the deep water's edge with deep affection, how could it ever be forgotten, even on the fifth day of the fifth month a thousand years from now?
Commentary: Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Congratulatory Poems 1172

Headnote: "On the fifth day of the fifth month, putting small decorated rice dumplings in a basket of mountain sedge, as a gift to the daughter of Lord Tamemasa"
The poet says that the wild rice, cut at the deep water's edge with deep affection, will never be forgotten, even on the fifth of the fifth month a thousand years hence. The headnote shows it was composed when, on the Boys' Festival of the fifth day of the fifth month, she put small decorated rice dumplings in a basket of mountain sedge and sent them to the daughter of Fujiwara no Tamemasa. Placing her deep affection in the wild rice used to wrap the dumplings and pivoting "itsuka" on "when" and "the fifth day," she wraps in words of thousand-year celebration the wish that this gift be remembered long.
The author, written as "Mother of Michitsuna, Master of the Crown Prince's Household," is the Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna. A daughter of Fujiwara no Tomoyasu, she became the wife of Fujiwara no Kaneie and bore Michitsuna. She wrote the Kagerō Diary and is known for her poem "nagekitsutsu" in the Hyakunin Isshu.

First line, "kokorozashi," means "affection," and leads into "fukaki" in the second line, layering deep affection with the deep water's edge.
Second line, "fukaki migiwa ni," means "at the deep water's edge," the waterside where wild rice grows.
Third line, "karu komo wa," means "the wild rice that was cut," wild rice being the grass used to wrap rice dumplings.
Fourth line, "chitose no satsuki," means "the fifth month a thousand years on," a celebratory phrase for a long span of years. It shares the word "chitose" with the second line of 1171 in this book, "chitose no koto wa."
Final line, "itsuka wasuren," is a pivot word: "itsuka" means "when" and "the fifth day" of the fifth month. It means "when would you forget? never," a rhetorical question that works in the festival of the fifth day of the fifth month.
Author: The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Source: Shui Wakashu
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