Ima zo shiru Tamuke no yama wa momijiba no nusa to chirikau na koso arikere - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

今ぞ知る手向の山は紅葉葉の
幣と散り交ふ名こそありけれ

Roma-ji: Ima zo shiru Tamuke no yama wa momijiba no nusa to chirikau na koso arikere
English Translation: Now I know it well:
the Mountain of Offerings
is where autumn leaves
scatter like offering strips,
and so it bears its name
Meaning: Now I know: the Mountain of Offerings takes its name from the autumn leaves scattering like strips offered to the gods.
Commentary: Book Five Autumn Poems II 372

Headnote: "Composed on autumn leaves among the poems of a hundred-poem sequence"
Composed on autumn leaves among the poems of a hundred-poem sequence. Now he knows, the poet says: the name Tamuke, "offering," comes from the autumn leaves scattering in confusion like the strips offered to the gods. Likening the scattering leaves to offering strips, he finds in them the origin of the mountain's name.
The author, "Fujiwara no Kiyosuke Ason," was the son of Master of the Eastern Capital Office Fujiwara no Akisuke. He carried on the poetic scholarship of the Rokujō Fujiwara house and wrote the treatises Fukuro Zōshi and Ōgishō. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
It draws on Sugawara no Michizane's Kokin Wakashū poem, "This time I could bring no offering; at Tamuke Mountain, take this brocade of autumn leaves, as the gods will." Just as 370 of this book found the origin of Arashiyama's name in the autumn leaves, this poem finds there the origin of Tamuke Mountain's name.
The last line of the text reads "na koso arikere," which does not match "na ni koso arikere" in the reading line. Here the text is followed.

First line, "ima zo shiru": "zo" closes with the attributive "shiru," "now I know," voicing the joy of discovery. The poem pauses here.
Second line, "Tamuke no yama wa": a mountain named for the offerings travelers made there to the gods of the road.
Third line, "momijiba no": giving the subject of "nusa to chirikau" in the fourth line.
Fourth line, "nusa to chirikau": "nusa" are offerings to the gods, cloth or paper cut into small strips, and "chirikau" is to scatter in confusion, likening the falling leaves to offering strips.
Fifth line, "na koso arikere": "koso" closes with the perfective form "kere," "that was the name," showing its origin. It answers the last line of 370, "na ni koso arikere."
Author: Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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