Takasago no onoe no kane no oto su nari akatsuki kakete shimo ya oku ran - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

高砂の尾上の鐘の音すなり
暁かけて霜や置くらん

Roma-ji: Takasago no onoe no kane no oto su nari akatsuki kakete shimo ya oku ran
English Translation: From Takasago,
upon the summit of the peak,
the sound of the bell:
as the night draws on toward dawn
is the frost settling now?
Meaning: I hear the bell on the summit at Takasago. Is the frost settling as the night draws on toward dawn?
Commentary: Book Six Winter Poems 398

Headnote: "Composed when a hundred-poem sequence was presented in the reign of Emperor Horikawa"
Composed for a hundred-poem sequence presented in the reign of Emperor Horikawa, a poem on frost from the Horikawa Hyakushu. The poet hears the bell on the summit at Takasago and wonders whether frost is settling as the night draws on toward dawn. Drawing on the tale that a bell rings when frost falls, he imagines the frost of a winter daybreak from a bell sounding far away.
The author, "Saki no Chūnagon Masafusa," was the son of Ōe no Narihira. Renowned as a scholar, he served as Provisional Middle Counselor and Acting Governor-General of Dazaifu. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Like the preceding poem, 397, it draws on the tale in the Shanhaijing of the bells of Mount Feng ringing when frost falls. Where the preceding poem asks about the frost first and brings in the bell after, this poem lets the bell be heard first and asks about the frost after, so the two form a pair with their order reversed.

First line, "Takasago no": Takasago is a poetic place in Harima Province, around today's Takasago in Hyōgo Prefecture.
Second line, "onoe no kane no": "onoe" is the top of a mountain ridge. The summit at Takasago is sung of as a poetic place together with pines and cherries.
Third line, "oto su nari": "nari" infers from sound, "I hear the bell." The poem pauses here, answering "kane no oto koso hono kikoyu nare" in the preceding poem, 397.
Fourth line, "akatsuki kakete": "on into dawn," showing time flowing through the night to daybreak, the same hour as "akatsuki no" in the preceding poem, 397.
Fifth line, "shimo ya oku ran": the interrogative "ya" closes with the attributive "ran." Like "hatsushimo ya" opening the preceding poem, it asks after the unseen frost.
Author: Oe no Masafusa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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