Satsukiyami shigeki hayama ni tatsu shika wa tomoshi ni nomi zo hito ni shiraruru - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

五月闇しげき端山に立つ鹿は
照射にのみぞ人に知らるる

Roma-ji: Satsukiyami shigeki hayama ni tatsu shika wa tomoshi ni nomi zo hito ni shiraruru
English Translation: In the Fifth Month's dark
the deer that stands upon
the thick-grown foothill
is known to anyone at all
only by the hunters' torch
Meaning: In the darkness of the Fifth Month, the deer standing on the thickly wooded foothills is known to people only by the light of the hunters' torches.
Commentary: Book Three Summer Poems 196

Headnote: "Composed as a poem on torch-hunting for a poetry contest held by Provisional Middle Counselor Toshitada when he was a Middle Captain"
Composed on "torch-hunting" for a poetry contest held by Fujiwara no Toshitada, later Provisional Middle Counselor, while he was a Middle Captain. On a moonless night of the Fifth Month, the deer standing on the thickly wooded foothills is hidden by darkness and foliage and becomes known to people only when the hunters' torches light it up. Suggesting that the fire that reveals the deer is the same fire that will take its life, the poem holds the pathos of the torch-hunt.
The author, "Fujiwara no Akitsuna Ason," was the son of Consultant Fujiwara no Kanetsune, and his mother was Ben no Menoto. He served as Governor of Sanuki among other posts and was called the Sanuki Lay-Priest. His daughter was Sanuki no Suke, Fujiwara no Nagako.

First line, "satsukiyami": a moonless, dark night in the season of summer rains, the same opening as 193 and 195 of this book, making three poems on the darkness of the Fifth Month.
Second line, "shigeki hayama ni": "shigeki" means thickly grown, and "hayama" are low hills near human dwellings.
Third line, "tatsu shika wa": "the deer that stands there."
Fourth line, "tomoshi ni nomi zo": "nomi" limits and the emphatic "zo" links with "ruru" in the last line: "only by the torch-hunt's light."
Fifth line, "hito ni shiraruru": "ruru," the attributive of the passive "ru," closes with "zo." Where the preceding poem, 195, likened the hunting fires seen from afar to stars, this one speaks from the side of the deer they light up.
Author: Fujiwara no Akitsuna
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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