Hito mo ga na mise mo kikase mo hagi no hana saku yūkage no higurashi no koe - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

人もがな見せも聞かせも萩の花
咲く夕かげのひぐらしの声

Roma-ji: Hito mo ga na mise mo kikase mo hagi no hana saku yūkage no higurashi no koe
English Translation: Would there were someone
to show it to, and let them hear:
the bush clover
blooming in the evening light,
the voice of the evening cicada
Meaning: If only someone were here to share it with me, so that I could show and let them hear the bush clover blooming in the evening light and the voice of the evening cicada.
Commentary: Book Four Autumn Poems I 247

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The poet wishes for someone dear to be by her side, so that she might show them the bush clover blooming in the evening light and let them hear the evening cicada's voice. Setting side by side the bush clover lovely to the eye and the cicada's voice that pierces the ear, she pours into the opening wish the loneliness of having no one to share such beauty with.
The author, "Izumi Shikibu," was the daughter of Ōe no Masamune, Governor of Echizen. She became the wife of Tachibana no Michisada, Governor of Izumi, and later served Fujiwara no Shōshi, consort of Emperor Ichijō. Known for her passionate love poetry, she has a poem in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
From this poem through 250, poems on bush clover follow one another.

First line, "hito mo ga na": "mo ga na" expresses a wish: "would that there were someone." The poem pauses here.
Second line, "mise mo kikase mo": "to show and to let hear," with "mise" answering the bush clover and "kikase" the cicada's voice.
Third line, "hagi no hana": modifies "saku" in the fourth line and is what she would "show."
Fourth line, "saku yūkage no": "yūkage" is the evening light, the dusk hour, the scene where the bush clover blooms.
Fifth line, "higurashi no koe": ends on a noun and is what she would "let hear," closing with a pair of something seen and something heard.
Author: Izumi Shikibu
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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