Natsu no uchi wa hata kakurete mo arazu shite oritachinikeru mushi no koe kana - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

夏のうちははたかくれてもあらずして
おりたちにける虫の声かな

Roma-ji: Natsu no uchi wa hata kakurete mo arazu shite oritachinikeru mushi no koe kana
English Translation: While it is summer,
not hiding in the shadows
as one would expect,
it has come down here to weave,
the voice of this insect
Meaning: While it is still summer, instead of hiding in the shadows, this insect has already come down to sing, as if setting to its weaving.
Commentary: Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Poems III 1184

Headnote: "Composed on hearing the hataori insect singing toward the end of the sixth month"
She composed this poem near the end of the sixth month, on hearing a hataori, a weaver insect, singing. Not hiding in the shadows while it is still summer, here is the voice of an insect come down, she says. Amused that the hataori, an insect of autumn, has begun singing while it is still summer, she splits its name between "hata" in the second line and "ori" in the fourth, and further lets "ori" echo the weaving of cloth.
The author, "Gō no Jijū," was a daughter of the scholar Ōe no Masahira, and her mother was Akazome Emon.
It is the fifth of the humorous poems, singing of an insect at summer's end, and from the next poem the series turns to autumn.

First line, "natsu no uchi wa": "while it is still summer," answering the end of the sixth month in the headnote.
Second line, "hata kakurete mo": "hata kakure" is hiding at the edge of things, in the shadows, with "hata" playing on the "hata" of the insect's name "hataori."
Third line, "arazu shite": "not so, but rather."
Fourth line, "oritachinikeru": "oritachi" plays on coming down and on "ori," weaving, and together with "hata" in the second line works in the name "hataori."
Fifth line, "mushi no koe kana": "the voice of an insect," with "kana" an exclamatory final particle.
Author: Gō no Jijū
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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