Tanabata no amatsu hire fuku akikaze ni yaso no funatsu o mifune izurashi - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

七夕の天つ領巾吹く秋風に
八十の船津を御船出づらし

Roma-ji: Tanabata no amatsu hire fuku akikaze ni yaso no funatsu o mifune izurashi
English Translation: In the autumn wind
that stirs the heavenly scarf
of the Weaver Maid,
from the eighty landing-stages
the sacred boat sets out
Meaning: In the autumn wind that ripples the heavenly scarf of the Weaver Maid, it seems the boat is setting out from the many landing-stages of the River of Heaven.
Commentary: Book Four Autumn Poems I 236

Headnote: "Composed on the feeling of Tanabata when presenting a hundred-poem sequence"
Composed on the feeling of "Tanabata" for a hundred-poem sequence presented to Retired Emperor Sutoku. When the autumn wind blows, stirring the heavenly scarf on the Weaver Maid's shoulders, it seems that boats are setting out on that wind from the many landing-stages of the River of Heaven. Stringing together archaic words such as "hire," "the eighty landing-stages" and "mifune," the poem paints the departure toward the lovers' meeting as a grand scene.
The author, "Major Counselor Takasue," is Fujiwara no Takasue, son of Middle Counselor Fujiwara no Ienari, who rose to Major Counselor. He is regarded as founder of the Shijō house and was one of the poets of Retired Emperor Sutoku's Kyūan Hundred-Poem Sequence.
Following the preceding poem, 235, on the Weaver Maid waiting at dusk for the meeting, this poem tells of the boat setting out toward it, the Tanabata sequence advancing with the flow of time.

First line, "tanabata no": here the Weaver Maid, modifying "amatsu hire" in the second line.
Second line, "amatsu hire fuku": "amatsu" means heavenly, and a "hire" is a long narrow scarf women wore over their shoulders, here the Weaver Maid's, stirred by the autumn wind. The next poem, 237, with "ama no hagoromo," also speaks of the Weaver Maid's garments.
Third line, "akikaze ni": "on the autumn wind that blows the scarf." The Tanabata meeting falls at the start of autumn, and the autumn wind urges the boat on.
Fourth line, "yaso no funatsu o": "yaso," eighty, means many, and "funatsu" are landing-stages: "from the many landing-stages" of the River of Heaven.
Fifth line, "mifune izurashi": "mifune" is an honorific for a boat and "rashi" expresses grounded inference: "it seems to be setting out."
Author: Fujiwara no Takasue
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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