Itsushika mo Tsukuma no matsuri hayasenan tsurenaki hito no nabe no kazu mimu - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

いつしかも筑摩の祭り早せなん
つれなき人の鍋の数見む

Roma-ji: Itsushika mo Tsukuma no matsuri hayasenan tsurenaki hito no nabe no kazu mimu
English Translation: How I wish they'd hold
the Tsukuma festival soon,
that I might see the count
of the pots that cold one wears
upon her head that day.
Meaning: How I wish they would hold the Tsukuma festival soon, so I could count the pots worn by the one who is so cold to me.
Commentary: Book Nineteen Miscellaneous Love Poems 1219

Headnote: "Topic unknown"
The poet wishes the Tsukuma festival would come soon, so as to count the pots on the cold one's head. At the festival of the Tsukuma Shrine in Ōmi, women were said to come wearing as many pots as the men they had been with, and with irony the poet means to see how many other men the woman so cold to him has known.

First line, "itsushika mo," means "soon," expressing impatience for the festival day.
Second line, "Tsukuma no matsuri," means "the festival of the Tsukuma Shrine" in Ōmi, known as a festival at which women came wearing pots.
Third line, "hayasenan," means "may they hold it soon," with "nan" a final particle expressing a wish directed at another. The poem breaks after this third line.
Fourth line, "tsurenaki hito no," means "of the cold-hearted one," the woman who will not open her heart to him. It shares this phrase with the fourth line of 1211 in this book, "tsurenaki hito o."
Final line, "nabe no kazu mimu," means "I will see the number of pots," with "mu" an auxiliary of intention, laying the count of pots over the count of men she has been with.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shui Wakashu
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