Fuetake no yo fukaki koe zo kikoyu naru kishi no matsukaze fuki ya souran - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

笛竹のよ深き声ぞ聞こゆなる
岸の松風吹きや添ふらん

Roma-ji: Fuetake no yo fukaki koe zo kikoyu naru kishi no matsukaze fuki ya souran
English Translation: From the bamboo flute
comes a deep voice through the night,
the sound reaching me;
could the wind among the shore pines
be blowing along with it?
Meaning: Deep in the night I hear the voice of a bamboo flute. Could the wind through the pines on the shore be blowing along with it?
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 960

Headnote: "Composed on a folding screen made for Jōtōmon'in's entry into the palace, on a scene of a house with pines and a person playing the flute"
This screen poem was composed on a scene painted on the folding screen made when Shōshi entered the palace as consort of Emperor Ichijō: a house among pines where someone plays the flute. I hear the deep voice of a flute in the night; could the wind in the shore pines be blowing along with it, he asks. Layering the sound of the pine wind over the flute in the picture, he raises a world of sound from a scene seen only with the eyes.
The author, "Major Counselor Tadanobu," was a son of Chancellor Fujiwara no Tamemitsu. He was active in the reign of Emperor Ichijō and later rose to major counselor. Together with Fujiwara no Kintō, Minamoto no Toshikata and Fujiwara no Yukinari he was called one of the Four Counselors of Ichijō's reign.
Following the preceding poem, 959, composed for a celebration Shōshi held, this one too concerns Shōshi, here her entry into the palace, so that poems connected with Jōtōmon'in stand together. Where the preceding poem has "the pine in the valley," this one has "the pine wind on the shore," carrying on the image of the pine. The text gives the fourth line as "kishi no matsukaze," which does not agree with "mine no matsukaze" in the reading line; here the text is followed.

First line, "fuetake no": "of the bamboo flute." The "yo" of bamboo means its node, which carries over into the "yo" of the second line.
Second line, "yo fukaki koe zo": "yo" is a pivot word meaning both the node of the bamboo and night, giving "a voice deep in the night." "Zo" is an emphatic binding particle that closes with "naru" in the third line.
Third line, "kikoyu naru": "naru" is the attributive of the hearsay auxiliary "nari," "it seems I hear." The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "kishi no matsukaze": the wind through the pines on the shore. It shares the pine with "tani no matsu to ya" in the fourth line of the preceding poem, 959.
Fifth line, "fuki ya souran": "fuki" overlaps the blowing of the flute and the blowing of the wind as associated words. "Ya" is interrogative and "ran" the auxiliary of present conjecture, "could it be blowing along?"
Author: Fujiwara no Tadanobu
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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