Omoiki ya Shiga no uranami tachikaeri mata Ōmi to mo naramu mono to wa - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

思ひきや志賀の浦波立ち返り
またあふみともならむものとは

Roma-ji: Omoiki ya Shiga no uranami tachikaeri mata Ōmi to mo naramu mono to wa
English Translation: Did I ever dream it?
Like the waves of Shiga's bay
I rise and return,
to be once more one who meets
the god here in Ōmi
Meaning: Did I ever dream that, like the waves of Shiga's shore that rise and return, I would come back and become one who meets again with the god of Ōmi?
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1120

Headnote: "Composed on visiting the Hie Shrine after I had gone up to the capital, my case set right, having been sent to an unknown province through an unforeseen affair"
Through an unexpected affair he had been exiled to an unknown land, but after he was pardoned and went up to the capital he visited the Hie Shrine and composed this poem. Did I dream that, like the waves of Shiga's bay, I would return and again become one who meets the god in Ōmi, he says. Though it had seemed he might never return to the capital from his distant island, he was pardoned and could once more come before the god of Hie, and he entrusts his joy and gratitude to the waves of Shiga's bay, a famous place of Ōmi.
The author, "Taira no Yasuyori," was an official of the end of the Heian period who served Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa. Accused of joining the Shishigatani plot, he was exiled to Kikai-ga-shima but was later pardoned and returned to the capital. He is said to be the author of the Buddhist tale collection Hōbutsushū.
Where 1118 of this book laments being passed over for pardon, this poem sings of the joy of being pardoned and returning to the capital, so the two stand in contrast.

First line, "omoiki ya": "ki" is the past auxiliary and "ya" rhetorical, "did I ever think it? I did not." The poem pauses here, in inversion with the lower verse.
Second line, "Shiga no uranami": the waves of Shiga's bay, a famous place on the western shore of Lake Biwa in Ōmi, bringing in the landscape of Ōmi where the Hie Shrine stands.
Third line, "tachikaeri": overlapping waves that rise and return with his own return to the capital. Through the image of the waves, the first and second lines lead into "tachikaeri."
Fourth line, "mata Ōmi to mo": "Ōmi" is a pivot word joining "au mi," a self that meets, and Ōmi, the province, overlapping one who can again meet the god with the land of Ōmi.
Fifth line, "naramu mono to wa": "that I would become such a one," returning to "omoiki ya" in the first line.
Author: Taira no Yasuyori
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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