classic waka stream

嬉しさをよその袖まで包むかな
たちかへりぬる天の羽衣
Roma-ji

Ureshisa o yoso no sode made tsutsumu kana tachikaerinuru ama no hagoromo

English Translation
Your joy is such
it wraps even my sleeves,
though far away I stand;
the robe of heaven you wear,
returning to the clouds above
Meaning
Your joy wraps even my sleeves, far away as I am; such is the robe of heaven you wear, now that you have returned above the clouds.
Commentary
Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1157

Headnote: "Sent to someone who had been readmitted to the courtiers' hall"
This poem was sent to someone who, after being struck from the roll of the courtiers' hall, had been readmitted. Your joy wraps even my sleeves far away, the heavenly robe of one returned, he says. The courtiers' hall was likened to the realm above the clouds, and the robes of those who served there to the feathered robes of heaven. The joy of his friend, returned above the clouds, is so great that, like the spreading sleeves of a heavenly robe, it wraps even the sleeves of one far away, and he wholeheartedly celebrates the readmission.
The author, "Fujiwara no Suetsune Ason," was a son of Fujiwara no Akisuke, Master of the Left Capital Office. A poet of the Rokujō Fujiwara house, he was versed in poetics together with his elder brother Kiyosuke.
It shares the first line "ureshisa o" and the word "tsutsumu," to wrap, with the preceding poem, 1156. Where the preceding poem says the sleeves of the poet's own robe are too narrow to wrap his joy, this one says another's joy wraps even the poet's sleeves, so the two stand in contrast. The next poems, 1158 and 1159, also concern readmission to the hall.

First line, "ureshisa o": "your joy at readmission." It is the same first line as the preceding poem, 1156.
Second line, "yoso no sode made": "even my sleeves, far away."
Third line, "tsutsumu kana": "how it wraps them," and the poem pauses here. It shares "tsutsumu" with "tsutsumubeki" in the third line of the preceding poem, 1156.
Fourth line, "tachikaerinuru": "tachi" is a pivot word joining "tachi" of "tachikaeru," to return, with "tatsu," to cut cloth, "having returned to the hall," with an echo of the robe.
Fifth line, "ama no hagoromo": the feathered robe worn by heavenly beings, a figure for the robes of those who serve in the courtiers' hall above the clouds. The poem ends on a noun.
Author
Fujiwara no Suetsune
Source
Senzai Wakashu
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