Oshidori no ukine no toko ya arenu ran tsurara inikeri Koya no ikemizu - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

鴛鴦の浮き寝の床や荒れぬらん
つららゐにけり昆陽の池水

Roma-ji: Oshidori no ukine no toko ya arenu ran tsurara inikeri Koya no ikemizu
English Translation: The floating bed
where the mandarin ducks sleep,
has it gone to ruin?
For ice has spread across
the waters of Koya Pond
Meaning: Has the floating bed of the mandarin ducks gone to ruin? Ice has formed over the waters of Koya Pond.
Commentary: Book Six Winter Poems 434

Headnote: "Composed on the topic 'Ice Begins to Form'"
Composed on the topic of ice beginning to form. Has the floating bed of the mandarin ducks gone to ruin, the poet asks, now that ice has formed on the waters of Koya Pond? Feeling for the ducks who can no longer sleep afloat on a frozen surface, he takes the newly forming ice as their bed laid waste.
The author, "Provisional Middle Counselor Tsunefusa," is Fujiwara no Tsunefusa, son of Fujiwara no Mitsufusa, Provisional Middle Controller of the Right, who rose to Provisional Middle Counselor and later Provisional Major Counselor. He left the diary Kikki.
The nine poems from 429 to 437 are poems on waterfowl. Mandarin ducks, wild ducks and other waterfowl were counted among the sights of the winter waterside.

First line, "oshidori no": taking up the mandarin ducks of 432, two poems earlier.
Second line, "ukine no toko ya": "toko" is a bed, the water's surface seen as the ducks' bed. The interrogative "ya" closes with the attributive "ran" in the third line.
Third line, "arenu ran": "has it gone to ruin?" and the poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "tsurara inikeri": "tsurara" is ice on the water's surface, and "iru" is for ice to form. "Keri" expresses realization, and the poem pauses again. 442 of this book uses the same words in "tsurara ite."
Fifth line, "Koya no ikemizu": the poem ends on a noun. Koya Pond, in Settsu Province, is a poetic place.
Author: Fujiwara no Tsunefusa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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