Iwane fumi mine no shiishiba orishikite kumo ni yado karu yūgure no sora - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

岩根踏み峰の椎柴折り敷きて
雲に宿借る夕暮の空

Roma-ji: Iwane fumi mine no shiishiba orishikite kumo ni yado karu yūgure no sora
English Translation: Treading on the rocks,
I break the shii twigs of the peak
and spread them for my bed,
borrowing lodging from the clouds
in the evening sky
Meaning: Treading over the rocks, I break and spread the shii oak twigs on the peak for my bed, and borrow lodging from the clouds in the evening sky.
Commentary: Book Eight Travel Poems 544

Headnote: "Composed as a travel poem among the hundred poems that the Monk En'i had composed"
Composed on the topic of travel for a hundred-poem sequence that Saigyō urged the poet to compose. Treading over the rocks, I break and spread the shii oak twigs on the peak and borrow lodging from the clouds in the evening sky, he says. On a steep mountain peak with no dwelling in sight, he sleeps in the open among the clouds, and he pictures this lonely scene of travel as borrowing lodging from the clouds. The poem closes the book of travel poems.
The author, "the Monk Jakuren," had the lay name Fujiwara no Sadanaga. A nephew of Fujiwara no Shunzei, he was for a time his adopted son. After taking the tonsure he traveled the provinces, and was chosen as one of the compilers of the Shin Kokin Wakashū but died before its completion. He has a poem in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
This poem closes the book of travel poems. The opening poem, 498, begins the book with the dawn moon lodging in the spring at the Ōsaka Barrier, and this final poem ends it with a traveler borrowing lodging from the clouds on a peak. The moon lodging in water at the opening and a person lodging in the clouds at the close answer each other through the conceit of "lodging."

First line, "iwane fumi": "iwane" is a great rock, "treading over the rocks."
Second line, "mine no shiishiba": "shiishiba" are small branches of the shii oak.
Third line, "orishikite": "breaking and spreading them" as a bed in the open. The word "orishiku" also appears in 500 and 514 of this book.
Fourth line, "kumo ni yado karu": "borrowing lodging in the clouds" that hang on the peak, picturing a night in the open among the clouds. In 528 of this book the showers borrow lodging in a sleeve, while here the traveler borrows lodging from the clouds.
Fifth line, "yūgure no sora": ending on a noun, it leaves the loneliness of evening on the peak lingering.
Author: Jakuren
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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