Ugoki naku chiyo o zo inoru Iwayayama toru sakakiba no iro kaezu shite - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

動きなく千代をぞ祈る石屋山
とる榊葉の色変へずして

Roma-ji: Ugoki naku chiyo o zo inoru Iwayayama toru sakakiba no iro kaezu shite
English Translation: Firm and unmoving,
for a thousand reigns I pray,
on Mount Iwaya,
as the sakaki leaves I hold
never change their hue
Meaning: Firm and unshaken, I pray for a reign of a thousand ages, as the sakaki leaves I take up on Mount Iwaya never change their green.
Commentary: Book Twenty Shinto Poems 1282

Headnote: "Composed on Mount Iwaya as a kagura song for the Suki side in the reign of Emperor Go-Sanjō, in the fourth year of Jiryaku"
He composed this on Mount Iwaya as a kagura song for the Suki side at the Great Thanksgiving Festival of Emperor Go-Sanjō in 1068. Unmoving, I pray for a thousand reigns, as the sakaki leaves taken on Mount Iwaya keep their hue, he says. Overlaying the immovable rock with the steadfastness of the reign and the evergreen sakaki with its constancy, he prays for the emperor's rule to last a thousand ages.
The author, "Fujiwara no Tsunehira," was a poet of the mid-Heian period counted among the Six Poets of Waka.
It follows the preceding poem, 1281, as a Suki poem, and both entrust the permanence of the reign to sakaki leaves.

First line, "ugoki naku": "unshaken," linked to the rock of "Iwaya" in the third line.
Second line, "chiyo o zo inoru": "zo," an emphatic binding particle, closes with the attributive "inoru." The poem pauses here.
Third line, "Iwayayama": a place name in the Suki province, the "rock" in its name echoing "ugoki naku" of the first line.
Fourth line, "toru sakakiba no": the sakaki leaves taken up in the kagura dance, singing of sakaki like "sakakiba o" in the third line of the preceding poem, 1281.
Fifth line, "iro kaezu shite": "never changing their evergreen hue," overlaid with the unchanging glory of the reign.
Author: Fujiwara no Tsunehira
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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