Chihayaburu Kamita no sato no ine nareba tsukihi to tomo ni hisashikaru beshi - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

千早ぶる神田の里の稲なれば
月日とともに久しかるべし

Roma-ji: Chihayaburu Kamita no sato no ine nareba tsukihi to tomo ni hisashikaru beshi
English Translation: Since this is the rice
of the village of Kamita,
field of mighty gods,
together with the sun and moon
it shall endure for long ages
Meaning: Since this is rice from the village of Kamita, the field of the gods, it will surely endure for long ages, together with the passing of the sun and moon.
Commentary: Book Ten Poems of Celebration 635

Headnote: "Composed on Kamita Village as a rice-pounding song for the Suki side at the Great Thanksgiving Festival of the first year of Jōhō, in the reign of Emperor Shirakawa"
Composed on Kamita Village as a rice-pounding song for the Suki side at the Great Thanksgiving Festival of 1074, in the reign of Emperor Shirakawa. Since this is rice from the village of Kamita, he says, it will endure as long as the sun and moon. In the rice-pounding song sung while pounding the rice offered to the gods at the festival, he makes use of the place name Kamita, which suggests "field of the gods," celebrating both the sanctity of the rice offered to the gods and the endurance of the reign.
The author, "Former Middle Counselor Masafusa," was the son of Ōe no Narihira. Renowned as a scholar, he served as Provisional Middle Counselor and Provisional Governor-General of Dazaifu. He has a poem in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Poem 638 of this book is also a rice-pounding song for the Suki side, and both sing of rice offered to the gods.

First line, "chihayaburu": a pillow word attached to "god," here to "Kamita" in the second line. Poems 616 and 621 of this book open with the same pillow word.
Second line, "Kamita no sato no": Kamita is the name of a village in the Suki province, echoing "a field growing rice for the gods." Like "Kumota no mura no" in the fourth line of 638, it names the place where the rice is grown.
Third line, "ine nareba": "since it is rice," the perfective with "ba" giving a fixed condition.
Fourth line, "tsukihi to tomo ni": "together with the turning of the sun and moon."
Fifth line, "hisashikaru beshi": "beshi" is conjectural, "it will surely last long." It shares its wording with "hisashikaru beki" in the last line of 632 of this book.
Author: Oe no Masafusa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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