Mishime yū kata ni torikake Kannabi no yama no sakaki o kazashi ni zo suru - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

みしめゆふ肩にとりかけ神南備の
山の榊をかざしにぞする

Roma-ji: Mishime yū kata ni torikake Kannabi no yama no sakaki o kazashi ni zo suru
English Translation: Sacred mulberry cloth
we take and hang upon our shoulders,
and from Kannabi,
the sakaki of the mountain
we wear as garlands in our hair
Meaning: Hanging the sacred mulberry cloth of the shrine rope on our shoulders, we wear sakaki from Mount Kannabi as ornaments in our hair.
Commentary: Book Twenty Shinto Poems 1286

Headnote: "Composed on Mount Kannabi in the province of Tanba as a kagura song, when I composed and presented poems for the Suki side at the Great Thanksgiving Festival in the first year of Juei"
When he composed and presented poems for the Suki side at the Great Thanksgiving Festival of Emperor Antoku in 1182, he wrote this kagura song on Mount Kannabi in Tanba. Hanging the sacred cloth on our shoulders, we wear the sakaki of Mount Kannabi in our hair, he says. He depicts those serving in the kagura dancing with mulberry cloth over their shoulders and sakaki in their hair, capturing the solemnity of the rite. The first line of the main text reads "mishime yū," which does not match "mishima yū" in the kana reading line; here the main text is followed.
The author, "Provisional Middle Counselor Kanemitsu," is Fujiwara no Kanemitsu. A son of Fujiwara no Sukenaga of the Hino house, he rose to provisional middle counselor.
1281 in this book also sings of Mount Kannabi in Tanba for the Suki side; that poem shows sakaki set up in prayer, this one sakaki worn in the hair. Like the sacred sash of 1271 in this book, it sings of mulberry cloth worn on the shoulder in rites.

First line, "mishime yū": understood as the mulberry cloth of the sacred shrine rope. The "mishima yū" of the kana reading line is mulberry cloth from Mishima in Izu, long sung of as something worn on the shoulder.
Second line, "kata ni torikake": "taking it up and hanging it on the shoulder." Like the sacred sash of 1271 in this book, it depicts those serving in the rites.
Third line, "Kannabi no": Mount Kannabi in Tanba, the same mountain as "Kannabiyama no" in the second line of 1281 in this book.
Fourth line, "yama no sakaki o": the sakaki of Mount Kannabi, used in the rites.
Fifth line, "kazashi ni zo suru": "kazashi" is an ornament worn in the hair or cap, and "zo," an emphatic binding particle, closes with the attributive "suru."
Author: Fujiwara no Kanemitsu
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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