Iwahashi no yoru no chigiri mo taenubeshi akuru wabishiki Katsuragi no kami - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

岩橋の夜の契りも絶えぬべし
明くるわびしき葛城の神

Roma-ji: Iwahashi no yoru no chigiri mo taenubeshi akuru wabishiki Katsuragi no kami
English Translation: Like the stone bridge
built by night, our night's vows too
must surely break;
I, who dread the coming dawn,
am Katsuragi's god.
Meaning: Like the stone bridge the god of Katsuragi worked on only by night, our pledge of the night will surely break off; for I am like that god, who found the coming of dawn so wretched.
Commentary: Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Congratulatory Poems 1201

Headnote: "When Major Counselor Asateru was of low rank and went secretly to a woman"
The poet says that like the stone bridge the god of Katsuragi built only by night, their night's pledge will surely break off, for she is like that god who found the dawn so wretched. The headnote shows it was composed when Fujiwara no Asateru, still of low rank, went secretly to a woman. Drawing on the legend that the god of Katsuragi, ashamed of his ugliness, worked only by night and so never finished the stone bridge, she likens herself, ashamed to be seen in the bright morning, to that god, and sings of nightly meetings that cannot last. Like 1199, two poems earlier, it draws on the legend of the stone bridge of Katsuragi.
The author, written as "Sakon, Lady Chamberlain of the Crown Prince," is Kodai no Kimi. She served Emperor Sanjō as a lady chamberlain when he was Crown Prince and was called Sakon. She is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.
In the main text, the author's name, "Sakon, Lady Chamberlain of the Crown Prince," is written straight after the end of the headnote.

First line, "iwahashi no," means "of the stone bridge" the god of Katsuragi tried to build, and since in the legend the work was done only at night, it leads into "yoru," night, in the second line. It shares the same legend with the half-built bridge of "katahashi" in the final line of 1199, two poems earlier.
Second line, "yoru no chigiri mo," means "our pledge of the night too," layering the bridge's night work over the night's vows of lovers.
Third line, "taenubeshi," means "will surely break off," with "nu" perfective and "beshi" conjectural. The poem breaks after this third line, layering the broken bridge with the broken vow.
Fourth line, "akuru wabishiki," means "who finds the coming of dawn so wretched," speaking of the shame of being seen when it grows light.
Final line, "Katsuragi no kami," the god of Mount Katsuragi in Yamato, Hitokotonushi, ends the poem on a noun. It sings of the same Katsuragi as the second line of 1199 in this book, "Katsuragiyama o."
Author: Kodai no Kimi
Source: Shui Wakashu
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