Mizugaki no katsura o utsusu yado nareba tsuki min koto zo hisashikaru beki - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

瑞垣の桂を移す宿なれば
月見んことぞ久しかるべき

Roma-ji: Mizugaki no katsura o utsusu yado nareba tsuki min koto zo hisashikaru beki
English Translation: Since this is the house
to which the katsura tree
from the sacred fence has come,
how long, long into the years
shall the moon be gazed on here
Meaning: Since this is a house to which a katsura tree has been brought from within a shrine's sacred fence, surely the moon, with which the katsura is bound, will be gazed upon here for long ages to come.
Commentary: Book Ten Poems of Celebration 632

Headnote: "Composed when Tachibana no Toshitsuna Ason had a katsura tree dug up and planted at his Fushimi residence"
Composed when Tachibana no Toshitsuna had a katsura tree dug up and planted at his residence in Fushimi. Since this is a house to which a katsura from the sacred fence has been brought, he says, the moon will be gazed upon here for a long time. From the Chinese tradition that a katsura tree grows in the moon, the katsura was a tree bound up with the moon. The poem says that the house to which a katsura from a shrine's sacred precinct has been transplanted will be a place for viewing the moon for long ages, and so celebrates the long life and prosperity of its master. The katsura is also the tree displayed together with hollyhock at the Kamo Festival.
The author, "Kamo no Narisuke," was a priest who served as chief priest of the Kamo Wakeikazuchi Shrine, and a poet of the mid-Heian period.
The next poem, 633, is also a poem of celebration connected with Tachibana no Toshitsuna.

First line, "mizugaki no": "mizugaki" is the fence around a shrine, marking the sacred precinct.
Second line, "katsura o utsusu": "transplanting the katsura tree." From the tradition that a katsura grows in the moon, the katsura is closely bound to the moon.
Third line, "yado nareba": "since it is a house," the perfective with "ba" giving a fixed condition.
Fourth line, "tsuki min koto zo": "n" is the attributive of the conjectural "mu" and "zo" an emphatic binding particle that closes with the attributive "beki" in the last line. "Katsura" in the second line and "tsuki," "moon," are related words.
Fifth line, "hisashikaru beki": "beki," the attributive of the conjectural "beshi," closes the "zo" of the fourth line, "it will surely last long." It shares its wording with "hisashikaru beshi" in the last line of 635 of this book.
Author: Kamo no Narisuke
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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