Kami ukuru toyo no akari ni Yūzono no hikagekazura zo haemasarikeru - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

神うくる豊の明かりに木綿園の
日蔭かづらぞ映えまさりける

Roma-ji: Kami ukuru toyo no akari ni Yūzono no hikagekazura zo haemasarikeru
English Translation: At the Feast of Light
where the gods receive our gifts,
from Yūzono
the cords of hikage moss
shine out all the brighter
Meaning: At the Feast of Abundant Light, where the gods receive our offerings, the hikage cords from Yūzono shine all the more brightly.
Commentary: Book Twenty Shinto Poems 1284

Headnote: "Composed on Yūzono in the province of Ōmi as a kagura song for the Yuki side at the Great Thanksgiving Festival in the reign of the Retired Emperor, in the second year of Kyūju"
He composed this on Yūzono in Ōmi as a kagura song for the Yuki side at the Great Thanksgiving Festival of Emperor Go-Shirakawa in 1155. The "Retired Emperor" of the headnote is Go-Shirakawa, the retired emperor when this anthology was compiled. At the Feast of Light where the gods receive offerings, the hikage cords of Yūzono shine all the brighter, he says. He sings of the hikage cords hung from the courtiers' caps catching the lamplight at the banquet held after the festival, and linking the place name Yūzono to the sacred mulberry cloth, paints a bright and festive scene.
The author, "Naganori, Minister of the Imperial Household," is Fujiwara no Naganori. A Confucian scholar of the Southern House of the Fujiwara, he served as professor of letters and rose to minister of the imperial household.
The next poem, 1285, is also a Yuki poem on a place in Ōmi by the same author.

First line, "kami ukuru": "where the gods receive offerings."
Second line, "toyo no akari ni": "toyo no akari" is the palace banquet held after the Great Thanksgiving and harvest rites, sounding also of lamplight.
Third line, "Yūzono no": a place name in Ōmi on the Yuki side, calling to mind the sacred mulberry cloth.
Fourth line, "hikagekazura zo": "hikagekazura" are cords hung from the cap at sacred rites, and "zo," an emphatic binding particle, closes with the attributive "keru" in the fifth line. "Akari," light, in the second line and "hikage," shade, here form a contrast.
Fifth line, "haemasarikeru": "shine all the more," with "keru," the attributive of the exclamatory "keri," closing the binding.
Author: Fujiwara no Naganori
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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