Haraka tsuru o-□□□ tsukite sumau nami ni kegoto oboyuru iritori no ama

腹赤釣るお□□□つきてすまふ波に
けことおぼゆる入り取りの海人

Roma-ji: Haraka tsuru o-□□□ tsukite sumau nami ni kegoto oboyuru iritori no ama
English Translation: Fishing haraka—
the □□□, and in the waves
that struggle and surge,
how strange and fierce they seem,
the fisherfolk who plunge in.
Meaning: Where they fish for haraka, the □□□, amid the waves that surge as if in struggle, the fisherfolk who plunge in for their catch seem strange and fierce.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1451

Headnote: none
Continuing the preceding poem on haraka fishing. Part of the second line is missing in the text, so the meaning is not fully clear, but it seems to say that, where haraka are fished, the fishermen plunging into the waves that surge as if in struggle seem fierce and strange.
Since part of the second line in the text is written as "ｘｘｘ," a lacuna, it is shown here as "□□□." The poem seems linked to the fishermen of the preceding poem who harass passing boats.

First line, “haraka tsuru”: fishing for haraka, the same first line as the preceding poem.
Second line, “o-□□□ tsukite”: there are missing characters in the text, and the sense cannot be fixed.
Third line, “sumau nami ni”: sumau is to struggle; taken as "in waves that surge as if contending"; the line has an extra syllable.
Fourth line, “kegoto oboyuru”: kegoto is taken as something extraordinary, strange.
Fifth line, “iritori no ama”: taken as fishermen who plunge in to catch fish, ending on a noun.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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