Koitsutsu ya imo ga utsuran karakoromo kinuta no oto no sora ni naru made - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

恋ひつつや妹が打つらむ唐衣
砧の音のそらになるまで

Roma-ji: Koitsutsu ya imo ga utsuran karakoromo kinuta no oto no sora ni naru made
English Translation: Yearning all the while,
can it be my love who beats
the robe of Cathay,
till the sound of the fulling block
fills the sky and her heart strays?
Meaning: Is it my love beating the robe as she yearns for me, until the sound of the fulling block fills the sky and her heart drifts away?
Commentary: Book Five Autumn Poems II 339

Headnote: "Composed on the topic 'Fulling Cloth' when a hundred-poem sequence was presented in the reign of Emperor Horikawa"
Composed on the topic of fulling cloth for a hundred-poem sequence presented in the reign of Emperor Horikawa. Can it be a wife beating cloth as she yearns for her far-off husband, the poet asks, until the sound of the block fills the sky and her heart grows absent? He hears the sound of the fulling block as the very heart of a wife thinking of her husband.
The author, "Major Counselor Kinzane," is Fujiwara no Kinzane, son of Provisional Major Counselor Fujiwara no Sanesue, who rose to Major Counselor. He was the father of Taikenmon'in Shōshi, consort of Emperor Toba, and one of the authors of the Horikawa Hyakushu.
This poem and the two that follow, through 341, are poems on fulling cloth drawn from the same Horikawa Hyakushu.

First line, "koitsutsu ya": "tsutsu" marks continuance, "while yearning," and the interrogative "ya" closes with the attributive "ramu" in the second line.
Second line, "imo ga utsuran": "imo" is a man's fond word for his wife or beloved, and "ran" is the present conjecture. The poem pauses here. Like "koromo utsuran" in the preceding poem, 338, it guesses at the unseen worker.
Third line, "karakoromo": an elegant word for a garment, naming the cloth being beaten. 341, two poems on, has the same third line.
Fourth line, "kinuta no oto no": sharing its words with "kinuta no oto zo" in the preceding poem, 338.
Fifth line, "sora ni naru made": "sora" is a pivot word meaning both the sky the sound fills and the absent state of a distracted heart.
Author: Fujiwara no Kinzane
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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