Fune sueshi minato no ashima sao tatete kokoro yukuran samidare no koro

船据ゑし港の芦間棹立てて
心ゆくらん五月雨の頃

Roma-ji: Fune sueshi minato no ashima sao tatete kokoro yukuran samidare no koro
English Translation: Among the harbor reeds
where they have laid up their boats,
poles set in the mud,
how much at ease they must be
in this time of summer rains.
Meaning: Mooring their boats among the reeds of the harbor with poles set upright, the boatmen must be passing the time at their ease in this season of early summer rain.
Commentary: Summer Poems 220

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When fifteen poems on the early summer rains were composed at a certain place, written on behalf of another"
This is the sixth of the fifteen poems. While the rains keep them from going out, the boatmen moor their boats among the reeds of the harbor, setting their poles upright, and pass the time contentedly, the poet imagines.
Where the fisherfolk of 215 in this book could not even raise the smoke of their salt fires, here the poet imagines the ease of boatmen resting their boats during the long rains, catching the people of the waterside in the same rains from another side.

First line, “fune sueshi”: sue is to set a boat in place and keep it there, and shi is the attributive of the past ki.
Second line, “minato no ashima”: among the clumps of reeds growing in the harbor.
Third line, “sao tatete”: setting a pole upright in the riverbed to hold the boat.
Fourth line, “kokoro yukuran”: kokoro yuku means to be content, at ease, and ran is the auxiliary of present conjecture.
Fifth line, “samidare no koro”: the poem ends on a noun, closing with the line shared by the group of rain poems.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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