Ayashiku mo waga nureginu o kitaru kana Mikasa no yama o hito ni kararete - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

あやしくも我が濡れ衣を着たるかな
三笠の山を人に借られて

Roma-ji: Ayashiku mo waga nureginu o kitaru kana Mikasa no yama o hito ni kararete
English Translation: How strange it is
that I should wear this soaked robe,
blamed for what's not mine,
because another borrowed
Mount Mikasa for his own.
Meaning: How strange it is that I should wear a soaking robe of false blame, all because someone borrowed Mount Mikasa, my name as Lesser Captain of the Guards.
Commentary: Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Congratulatory Poems 1191

Headnote: "When Prince Munehira, Minister of War, went to a place the same Lesser Captain used to visit and had it announced that the Lesser Captain had come, the Lesser Captain heard of it later and sent this to the prince"
The poet says that, strangely, he has been made to wear a wet robe of false blame, because someone borrowed Mount Mikasa. The headnote shows that Prince Munehira, Minister of War, went to a woman Yoshitaka, then a Lesser Captain, was visiting and had it announced that the Lesser Captain had come; when Yoshitaka later heard of it, he sent this to the prince. Using "Mount Mikasa," another name for the Inner Palace Guards, it wittily reproaches the prince for borrowing the Lesser Captain's name, in the words of a "wet robe" of false blame. Prince Munehira was a son of Emperor Murakami.
The author, Fujiwara no Yoshitaka, was a son of the Regent Fujiwara no Koretada. He served as Lesser Captain of the Right but died young, at twenty-one. He is one of the Thirty-Six Later Immortal Poets and is known for his poem "kimi ga tame oshikarazarishi" in the Hyakunin Isshu.
The second line of the main text reads "waga nureginu o," which does not match "ware nureginu o" in the reading line. Here the main text is followed.

First line, "ayashiku mo," means "how strange."
Second line, "waga nureginu o," means "my wet robe," with "nureginu" meaning a baseless rumor or false blame.
Third line, "kitaru kana," means "I have come to wear," with "taru" perfective and "kana" exclamatory. The poem breaks after this third line. It links through the word "to wear" with the fourth line of the next poem, 1192, "kitari to hito ni."
Fourth line, "Mikasa no yama o," means "Mount Mikasa," another name for the Inner Palace Guards, standing for the name of Yoshitaka, a Lesser Captain of the Guards.
Final line, "hito ni kararete," means "having it borrowed by another," with "re" a passive auxiliary, giving the reason for the third line in inverted order.
Author: Fujiwara no Yoshitaka
Source: Shui Wakashu
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