Yukusue o matsu zo hisashiki kimi ga hen chiyo no hajime no nenohi to omoeba - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

行く末をまつぞ久しき君が経ん
千代の始めの子の日と思へば

Roma-ji: Yukusue o matsu zo hisashiki kimi ga hen chiyo no hajime no nenohi to omoeba
English Translation: Long is the waiting
for your future, like the pine:
for I think of this
as the Day of the Rat that starts
the thousand ages you will live
Meaning: Long, like the pine, is my waiting upon your future, for I think of today as the Day of the Rat that begins the thousand ages you will live.
Commentary: Book Ten Poems of Celebration 617

Headnote: "Composed on the topic of the Day of the Rat, when a hundred-poem sequence was presented in the reign of Emperor Horikawa"
Composed on the topic of the Day of the Rat when hundred-poem sequences were presented in the reign of Emperor Horikawa. Long is my waiting upon your future, she says, for I think of today as the Day of the Rat that begins the thousand ages you will live. Against the custom of going out to the fields on the first Day of the Rat in the New Year to pull up young pines and pray for long life, she lets "matsu," "to wait," echo "matsu," "pine," and overlays my lord's future on the thousand-year life of the pine. The sequence is the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequences.
The author, "Higo of the Nijō Grand Empress Dowager," is said to have been the daughter of Fujiwara no Sadanari. She was a lady-in-waiting to the Nijō Grand Empress Dowager, Princess Reishi, and one of the poets of the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequences.
She shares the theme of celebrating the beginning of a thousand ages with "chiyo no hajime naruran" in 610 and "chiyo fu beki hajime no haru" in 623 of this book.

First line, "yukusue o": "the future that lies ahead."
Second line, "matsu zo hisashiki": "matsu" combines "to wait" for the future and "pine," pulled up on the Day of the Rat. The emphatic "zo" closes with the attributive "hisashiki." The poem pauses here.
Third line, "kimi ga hen": "he" means to pass the years, and "n" is the attributive of the conjectural "mu," "which you will live through."
Fourth line, "chiyo no hajime no": "the beginning of a thousand ages." It echoes "hajime naruran" in the last line of 610.
Fifth line, "nenohi to omoeba": the Day of the Rat is the first such day of the New Year, when people went to the fields to pull up young pines and pick young greens, praying for long life. "Omoeba," the perfective with "ba," gives a fixed condition and stands in inverted order with the second line.
Author: Higo
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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