Shinateru ya Kataokayama ni ii ni uete fuseru tabibito aware oya nashi - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

しなてるや片岡山に飯に飢ゑて
臥せる旅人あはれ親なし

Roma-ji: Shinateru ya Kataokayama ni ii ni uete fuseru tabibito aware oya nashi
English Translation: On Kataoka Hill,
where the sunlight shines, starving
for a bite of rice,
there you lie, poor traveler,
alas, have you no parents?
Meaning: On Kataoka Hill you lie, a traveler starving for food. Alas, have you no parents?
Commentary: Book Twenty Lament Poems 1350

Headnote: "When Prince Shōtoku was staying at the house of a man of the way at Takaoka-yama, a starving man lay by the roadside. The horse the prince rode stopped and would not go on, and though he raised his whip and struck it, it drew back and stood still. The prince then got down from his horse, walked up to the starving man, took off his purple outer robe and covered him with it, and composed a poem, saying: "... were you born so? Have you no lord, like the straight bamboo? Starving for rice, you lie here, traveler, alas, alas." Such was the poem"
The prince says to the traveler lying starved on Kataoka Hill: alas, have you no parents? The headnote shows that Prince Shōtoku found a man lying starving by the roadside, got down from his horse, covered him with his own purple robe, and composed a poem. It is based on the tale of the starving man of Kataoka in the entry for the twenty-first year of Empress Suiko (613) in the Nihon Shoki, and the headnote records the rest of that longer song. It conveys the depth of compassion of the high-born prince, who gives his heart to a traveler fallen by the road. The next poem, 1351, is the starving man's reply.
The author, Prince Shōtoku, was a son of Emperor Yōmei. As regent for Empress Suiko he directed the government, established the Seventeen-Article Constitution, and founded Hōryūji.
It appears in the Nihon Shoki, in the entry for the twenty-first year of Empress Suiko, as the song given to the starving man of Kataoka.

First line, "shinateru ya," is a pillow word for "kata," leading to Kataoka Hill.
Second line, "Kataokayama ni," means "on Kataoka Hill" in Yamato.
Third line, "ii ni uete," means "starving for food," a hypermetric line of six syllables.
Fourth line, "fuseru tabibito," means "the traveler lying there," with "ru" the attributive form of the auxiliary "ri" of continuing state.
Final line, "aware oya nashi," means "alas, have you no parents," pitying the traveler's lonely lot.
Author: Prince Shōtoku
Source: Shui Wakashu
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