Ametsuchi no kiwame mo shiranu miyo nareba Kumota no mura no ine o koso tsuke - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

天地の極めも知らぬ御代なれば
雲田の村の稲をこそ舂け

Roma-ji: Ametsuchi no kiwame mo shiranu miyo nareba Kumota no mura no ine o koso tsuke
English Translation: Since this is a reign
that knows no bound, as heaven
and the earth know none,
it is the rice of Kumota
village that we pound for it
Meaning: Since this is a reign that knows no bound, like heaven and earth themselves, we pound the rice of Kumota village in its honor.
Commentary: Book Ten Poems of Celebration 638

Headnote: "Composed on Kumota Village in Tanba Province as a rice-☆ song for the Suki side at the same Great Thanksgiving Festival"
Composed on Kumota Village in Tanba as a rice-pounding song for the Suki side at the same Great Thanksgiving Festival of 1159 as the preceding poem. Since this is a reign that knows no limit of heaven and earth, he says, we pound the rice of Kumota village. Saying that the rice offered to the gods is pounded for a reign without end, and letting the place name Kumota echo the clouds of heaven, the poem celebrates a reign that will last as long as heaven and earth. One character of the headnote is shown in the text as "☆" and cannot be read, but from the headnote of 635 in this book it is taken to be "rice-pounding song."
The author, "Minister of Justice Norikane," is Fujiwara no Norikane. A scholar of the Southern House of the Fujiwara, he served as Head of the University and Minister of Justice, and wrote the poetic treatises Waka Dōmōshō and Godaishū Utamakura.
Poem 635 of this book is also a rice-pounding song for the Suki side, and both sing of rice offered to the gods.

First line, "ametsuchi no": "of heaven and earth."
Second line, "kiwame mo shiranu": "kiwame" means end or limit, "knowing no end."
Third line, "miyo nareba": "since it is a reign," the perfective with "ba" giving a fixed condition.
Fourth line, "Kumota no mura no": Kumota is a place in Tanba, weaving in a place name of the Suki province. Its "kumo," "cloud," echoes "ametsuchi" in the first line. Like "Kamita no sato no" in the second line of 635, it names the place where the rice is grown.
Fifth line, "ine o koso tsuke": "tsuke" is the perfective of "tsuku," "to pound grain in a mortar to husk it," closing the emphatic binding particle "koso."
Author: Fujiwara no Norikane
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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