Mabushi sasu shizuo no mi ni mo taekanete hato fuku aki no koe tatetsu nari - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

まぶしさす賤男の身にも堪へかねて
鳩吹く秋の声立てつなり

Roma-ji: Mabushi sasu shizuo no mi ni mo taekanete hato fuku aki no koe tatetsu nari
English Translation: Setting up his blind,
even the lowly man,
unable to bear it,
blowing the dove call in autumn,
has raised his voice, so I hear
Meaning: Even the lowly man who sets his hunting blind and waits, unable to bear it, seems to have raised his voice, blowing the dove call in autumn.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 848

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on the heart of love when presenting hundred-poem sequences in the reign of Emperor Horikawa"
Like the preceding poem, it was composed on the heart of love for the Horikawa Hyakushu. Even the lowly man who sets his blind and waits for game, unable to bear it, seems to have raised his voice, blowing the dove call in autumn, he says. The "dove call," made by cupping the hands and blowing to imitate a dove as a hunter's signal, is taken as a voice raised in spite of oneself, unable to hold back. Just as even a lowly hunter cannot bear it and raises his voice, so the thoughts of love cannot be kept hidden to the end: the poem can be read as entrusting this feeling to a scene of hunting in the hills and fields.
The author, "Fujiwara no Nakazane Ason," was a poet of the cloistered rule era. He was one of the poets of the Horikawa Hyakushu and was active in poetry circles in the reign of Emperor Horikawa.
It is a love poem from the same Horikawa Hyakushu as the preceding poem, 847, and the two stand side by side.

First line, "mabushi sasu": "mabushi" is a blind made of branches and the like in which a hunter hides to lie in wait for game. "Sasu" is to set it up.
Second line, "shizuo no mi ni mo": "shizuo" is a man of low station, here a hunter. "Mo" adds "even such a one."
Third line, "taekanete": "unable to bear it." It overlays a heart that cannot keep its love hidden.
Fourth line, "hato fuku aki no": "hato fuku" is to cup the hands and blow to imitate a dove's call, used by hunters as a signal in the autumn hunt.
Fifth line, "koe tatetsu nari": "tsu" is a completive auxiliary and "nari" an auxiliary of inference from sound, "I hear that he has raised his voice." Taking up "taekanete" in the third line, it closes on a voice that escapes in spite of oneself.
Author: Fujiwara no Nakazane
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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