Konomoto ni kakiatsumetaru kotonoha o wakareshi aki no katami to zo miru - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

このもとにかき集めたる言の葉を
別れし秋の形見とぞ見る

Roma-ji: Konomoto ni kakiatsumetaru kotonoha o wakareshi aki no katami to zo miru
English Translation: These leaves of words
gathered and written down
beneath this tree,
I look on them as keepsakes
of the autumn when we parted
Meaning: These leaves of words that were gathered and written here beneath his roof, like leaves raked under a tree, I look upon as keepsakes of the autumn when we parted.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1105

Headnote: "Written and pasted into a book copied by the late Ōimikado Minister of the Right, among the Collections of the Thirty-Six Poets I returned to Major Counselor Saneie"
Among the Collections of the Thirty-Six Poets she returned to Fujiwara no Saneie was a book copied by the late Ōimikado Minister of the Right, Fujiwara no Kinyoshi, and this poem was written and pasted into it. These leaves of words gathered beneath this tree I look on as keepsakes of the autumn when we parted, she says. Likening the collection her late father had copied to leaves raked together beneath a tree, she tells her brother that she treasures it as a keepsake of the autumn when they lost their father. Linking words associated with leaves, "leaves of words," "gather," and "autumn," she fills the poem with longing for her father. Kinyoshi died in the autumn of Eiryaku 2 (1161).
The author, "the Grand Empress Dowager," is Fujiwara no Masaruko. A daughter of the Minister of the Right Fujiwara no Kinyoshi, she became empress to Emperor Konoe and later entered the palace of Emperor Nijō as well, so that she was called "the empress of two reigns."
The next poem, 1106, is Saneie's reply to this one. It also shares "konomoto" with "konomoto o koso" in the fourth line of 1099 of this book, which is likewise an exchange between parent and child.

First line, "konomoto ni": "konomoto" is a pivot word joining "ko no moto," beneath the tree, and "kono moto," here at his side, overlapping "beneath the tree" and "with my father." It is the same word as "konomoto o koso" in the fourth line of 1099 of this book and "konomoto wa" in the first line of the next poem, 1106.
Second line, "kakiatsumetaru": "kaki" is a pivot word joining "kaki," writing poems, and "kaki," raking leaves.
Third line, "kotonoha o": "leaves of words," meaning poems, an associated word of tree leaves.
Fourth line, "wakareshi aki no": "of the autumn when we parted" from our father in death.
Fifth line, "katami to zo miru": "zo" is an emphatic binding particle closing with the attributive "miru."
Author: Fujiwara no Masaruko
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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