Samidare wa taku mo no keburi uchishimeri shiotare masaru Suma no urabito - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

五月雨はたく藻の煙うちしめり
潮垂れまさる須磨の浦人

Roma-ji: Samidare wa taku mo no keburi uchishimeri shiotare masaru Suma no urabito
English Translation: In the summer rains
the smoke of burning seaweed
is damp all through,
and drenched with brine still more
are the fisherfolk of Suma
Meaning: In the season of summer rains the smoke of burning seaweed is damp through and through, and the fisherfolk of Suma are drenched with brine and tears all the more.
Commentary: Book Three Summer Poems 183

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed when presenting a hundred-poem sequence to Retired Emperor Sutoku"
Like the preceding poem, this belongs to the hundred-poem sequence presented to Retired Emperor Sutoku. In the season of summer rains, the smoke of seaweed burned for salt on the shore of Suma is damp, and the fisherfolk there, wet with brine and with the long rains as well, must live more tearfully than ever. "Shiotaru," to drip with brine, is also used for being wet with tears, and the poem overlays the desolation of Suma with the dampness of the summer rains.
The author, "Master of the Empress Dowager's Household Shunzei," is Fujiwara no Shunzei, son of Provisional Middle Counselor Fujiwara no Toshitada. He served as Master of the Empress Dowager's Household and rose to Senior Third Rank. He is the compiler himself, who chose the Senzai Wakashū at Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa's command, and a poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Since Ariwara no Yukihira's poem in the Kokin Wakashū, "If anyone should chance to ask, say that on Suma's shore I grieve, dripping like the brine of seaweed," Suma has been sung as a place where fisherfolk burn seaweed for salt and live wet with tears.

First line, "samidare wa": "wa" sets off the season: "in the time of summer rains."
Second line, "taku mo no keburi": the smoke of seaweed burned to make salt. The smoke that rose amid the deutzia in 144 of this book is here dampened by the rains.
Third line, "uchishimeri": "uchi" is a prefix: "thoroughly damp."
Fourth line, "shiotare masaru": "shiotaru" means to drip with brine and is also used for being wet with tears, drawing on "moshio taretsutsu" in Yukihira's poem.
Fifth line, "Suma no urabito": ends on a noun, the people of the shore at Suma, a poetic place in Settsu. Poem 185 of this book also depicts the salt-making wood and smoke of the shore, pairing with this poem.
Author: Fujiwara no Shunzei
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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