Kyō naredo wakana mo tsumazu kasugano no waga kogiwataru ura ni nakereba - Tosa Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

けふなれど若菜もつまず春日野の
わがこぎわたる浦になければ

Roma-ji: Kyō naredo wakana mo tsumazu kasugano no waga kogiwataru ura ni nakereba
English Translation: Though it is today,
I pick no young greens at all,
for Kasuga Moor
is nowhere on these shores where
I go rowing on my way
Meaning: Though it is the day, I gather no spring greens, for Kasuga Moor is nowhere to be found along the shores I row past.
Commentary: 38 The Twenty-Ninth Day of the First Month: The Day of the Rat at Sea and the Port of Tosa

On the twenty-ninth day of the first month, the party set out and sailed on, rowing under a mild, sunny sky. Noticing how long their nails had grown, they counted the days and found it was the Day of the Rat, so they did not cut them. Since it was the first month, people spoke of the Day of the Rat outing held in the capital and said, "If only there were little pines," but at sea that was impossible.
The Day of the Rat outing was an observance held on the first Day of the Rat of the new year, when people went out into the fields to pull up young pines and gather spring greens, praying for long life. Those who compose poems this day are "a certain woman," "a certain person," and a woman who once lived in a place called Tosa.
Following a certain woman's "Obotsukana kyō wa ne no hi ka ama naraba miru o dani hikamashi mono o," a certain person composed this poem.
Composing poems as they rowed on, they drew up the boat at a charming spot and asked, "Where is this?" The answer was "Tosa-no-tomari." Then a woman who had once lived in a place called Tosa composed "Toshigoro o sumishi tokoro no na ni shi oeba kiyoru nami o mo aware to zo miru."

The first line, "Kyō naredo," means "though today is the Day of the Rat." The second line, "wakana mo tsumazu," means "I do not pick spring greens," with "zu" the negative auxiliary. Kasugano in the third line is a moor in Nara famed for gathering spring greens.
The fourth line, "waga kogiwataru," means "where I row across," and the final line, "ura ni nakereba," closes with "because it is not on this shore." Through inversion, the lower verse gives the reason for what is stated in the upper verse.
The poem laments that because Kasuga Moor, famed for spring greens, is not on the shores the speaker rows past, no greens can be picked even on the Day of the Rat. Where the previous poem transposed the pulling of young pines to sea-pine weed, this one takes up the gathering of greens, singing the loneliness of being unable to keep the New Year observances at sea.
Author: Ki no Tsurayuki
Source: Tosa Nikki
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