classic waka stream

はるばると津守の沖を漕ぎ行けば
岸の松風遠ざかるなり
Roma-ji

Harubaru to Tsumori no oki o kogiyukeba kishi no matsukaze tōzakaru nari

English Translation
As I row far out,
farther and farther past
the offing of Tsumori,
the wind in the pines on the shore
grows distant in my ears
Meaning
As I row far out past the offing of Tsumori, I hear the wind in the shore pines fading into the distance.
Commentary
Book Eight Travel Poems 529

Headnote: "Composed as a travel poem when a hundred-poem sequence was composed at the house"
Composed by the poet himself on the topic of travel when he had a hundred-poem sequence composed at his house. As I row far out past the offing of Tsumori, I hear the wind in the shore pines growing distant, he says. Through sound alone, the fading of the wind in the pines as the boat moves out to sea, he conveys the forlornness of a voyage leaving the land behind.
The author, "Regent and Former Minister of the Right," is Kujō Kanezane, son of Regent Fujiwara no Tadamichi. After serving as Minister of the Right he became Regent in 1186. He left the diary Gyokuyō and was the elder brother of Jien.
This poem and the two that follow, through 531, are travel poems from the hundred-poem sequence at Kanezane's house.

First line, "harubaru to": "far and wide."
Second line, "Tsumori no oki o": Tsumori is a place near Sumiyoshi in Settsu, and this is its offing.
Third line, "kogiyukeba": "ba" after the perfective form gives a fixed condition, "as I row on."
Fourth line, "kishi no matsukaze": the wind in the pines on the shore of Sumiyoshi, a place famous for its pines.
Fifth line, "tōzakaru nari": "nari" infers from hearing, "I hear it fading away." Poem 505 of this book also says "tōzakarinuru," so a land journey and a sea journey form a pair, both singing of what grows distant.
Author
Kujō Kanezane
Source
Senzai Wakashu
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