Toshigoro o sumishi tokoro no na ni shi oeba kiyoru nami o mo aware to zo miru - Tosa Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

年ごろをすみし所の名にしおへば
きよる浪をもあはれとぞ見る

Roma-ji: Toshigoro o sumishi tokoro no na ni shi oeba kiyoru nami o mo aware to zo miru
English Translation: Since this place now bears
the name of the place where I
lived for many years,
even the waves that roll in
I look upon with fondness
Meaning: Because this place bears the name of the land where I lived for so many years, even the waves that wash ashore seem dear to me.
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.
When they drew up the boat at a charming spot and asked the name of the place, the answer was "Tosa-no-tomari." A woman who had once lived for a while in a place called Tosa, moved that it bore the same name as the place where she had lived, composed this poem.
The diary records no response. The next day, the thirtieth, hearing that pirates do not move about at night, the party set out in the middle of the night and crossed the strait of Awa.

The first line, "Toshigoro o," means "for many years." In the second line, "sumishi tokoro no," "shi" is the attributive form of the past auxiliary "ki": "of the place where I lived." In the third line, "na ni shi oeba," "shi" is an emphatic particle, and "na ni ou" means to bear a name.
The fourth line, "kiyoru nami o mo," means "even the waves that roll in." In the final line, "aware to zo miru," "zo" is an emphatic particle, closing with the attributive form "miru" in a kakari-musubi construction.
At an anchorage bearing the same name as the land where she lived for years, the speaker feels fondness even for the waves breaking ashore, and the poem expresses this plainly. Its way of voicing feeling through a place name also echoes "Makoto nite na ni kiku tokoro hane naraba tobu ga gotoku ni miyako e mogana" on the eleventh day of the first month.
Author: Ki no Tsurayuki
Source: Tosa Nikki
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