Kamiyama no fumoto ni nareshi aoigusa hikiwakarete mo toshi zo henikeru - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

神山の麓に馴れしあふひ草
引き別れても年ぞ経にける

Roma-ji: Kamiyama no fumoto ni nareshi aoigusa hikiwakarete mo toshi zo henikeru
English Translation: O heart-leaf plant,
my old friend below the slopes
of Kamiyama:
since I was plucked away from you,
how many years have passed!
Meaning: O heart-leaf plant I knew so well at the foot of Kamiyama, many years have gone by since I was parted from you.
Commentary: Book Three Summer Poems 147

Headnote: "Written on the heart-leaf someone presented on the day of the Miare rite of the festival, after she had stepped down as Kamo Priestess"
After Princess Shikishi had stepped down as Kamo Priestess, someone sent her heart-leaf on the day of the Miare rite of the Kamo Festival, and she wrote this poem on it. Many years have passed, she says, since she was parted from the aoi she knew so well at the foot of Kamiyama while serving as priestess. Echoing "au hi," the day of meeting, in "aoi," the poem conveys both nostalgia for her days as priestess, stirred whenever she sees the aoi, and the length of the years that have carried her away.
The author, "Former Kamo Priestess Princess Shikishi," was the third daughter of Emperor Go-Shirakawa. After serving as Kamo Priestess she took holy orders. She studied poetry with Fujiwara no Shunzei and is known as a leading woman poet of the Shin Kokin era. A poem of hers is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

First line, "Kamiyama no": Kamiyama is the mountain behind the Upper Kamo Shrine, where the Kamo deity is said to have descended.
Second line, "fumoto ni nareshi": "shi" is the attributive past auxiliary: "that I knew well at its foot," recalling her days in Kamo as priestess.
Third line, "aoigusa": "aoi" is a pivot word for the heart-leaf used at the Kamo Festival and "au hi," a day of meeting. Following the preceding poem, 146, it again treats the aoi.
Fourth line, "hikiwakarete mo": "hiki" layers plucking the aoi with "hikiwakaru," to be parted.
Fifth line, "toshi zo henikeru": "zo" closes with the attributive "keru." Where the preceding poem, 146, captured the aoi turning to the sun in a passing moment, this one recalls through the aoi the years that have gone by.
Author: Princess Shokushi
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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