Kinō mishi shinobu mojizuri tare naran kokoro no hodo zo kagiri shirarenu - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

昨日見ししのぶもぢずり誰ならん
心のほどぞ限り知られぬ

Roma-ji: Kinō mishi shinobu mojizuri tare naran kokoro no hodo zo kagiri shirarenu
English Translation: Who, I wonder, wore
the shinobu-patterned print
seen but yesterday?
The depth of the heart behind it
is beyond all knowing
Meaning: Who was it, I wonder, wearing the shinobu print I saw yesterday? The depth of the thoughtfulness behind it knows no bounds.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 976

Headnote: "Had a poem left at Noritsuna's house the next day, when, among the attendants of Major Captain of the Right Kanenaga, who went as presiding noble to the Kasuga Festival, Kiyotsuna, son of Fujiwara no Noritsuna, then of the sixth rank, was dressed in a hunting robe of shinobu print and looked charming"
When Major Captain of the Right Fujiwara no Kanenaga went as presiding noble to the Kasuga Festival, among his attendants was Kiyotsuna, son of Fujiwara no Noritsuna, still of the sixth rank, dressed in a hunting robe of shinobu print; this looked so charming that the next day the author had this poem left at Noritsuna's house. Who was it in the shinobu print I saw yesterday? The depth of that heart knows no bounds, he says. Drawing on the famous old poem of "shinobu mojizuri," he praises Noritsuna's elegant care in dressing his son in a robe evoking the celebrated product of Michinoku.
The author, "Akisuke, Master of the Left Capital Office," is Fujiwara no Akisuke. A son of Fujiwara no Akisue, he carried on the poetic learning of the Rokujō Fujiwara house and, by order of Retired Emperor Sutoku, compiled the Shika Wakashū. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
This poem takes as its model the Kokin Wakashū poem by the Kawara Minister of the Left, Minamoto no Tōru, "Michinoku no shinobu mojizuri tare yue ni midaresomenishi ware naranaku ni," borrowing the words "shinobu mojizuri" and "tare."

First line, "kinō mishi": "shi" is the attributive of the past auxiliary "ki," "seen yesterday," referring to the procession of the Kasuga Festival.
Second line, "shinobu mojizuri": cloth printed with a tangled pattern using shinobu fern, a famed product of Shinobu in Michinoku. It takes the second line of the model poem just as it is.
Third line, "tare naran": "who might it be," taking up "tare yue ni" of the model poem. The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "kokoro no hodo zo": "the depth of the heart, the measure of the thoughtfulness." "Zo" is an emphatic binding particle closing with "nu" in the fifth line.
Fifth line, "kagiri shirarenu": "re" is the continuative of the potential "ru" and "nu" the attributive of the negative "zu," "its limits cannot be known."
Author: Fujiwara no Akisuke
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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