Moshio yaku Suma no urabito uchitaete itoi ya suramu samidare no sora - Shika Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

藻塩焼く須磨の浦人うち絶えて
いとひやすらむ五月雨の空

Roma-ji: Moshio yaku Suma no urabito uchitaete itoi ya suramu samidare no sora
English Translation: At Suma Bay
the folk who burn the seaweed
for salt have ceased—
do they now detest the sight
of these skies of summer rain?
Meaning: Have the people of Suma Bay, who burn seaweed to make salt, given up their work entirely, and do they now loathe these skies of early-summer rain?
Commentary: Book Two Summer Poems 68

As the early-summer rains fall on and on, the poet imagines from the capital that the smoke from the salt fires at Suma Bay must have died out, and thinks of the life of the people by the sea.
This is the last of the early-summer rain poems. Following poem 66, which imagines a woman trying to dry thread in the rain, this poem also pictures from afar people troubled by the rains.

First line refers to the seaside work of pouring seawater over seaweed and burning it to make salt.
Second line names the people of Suma Bay in Settsu, a famous place in poetry.
Third line shows that the salt making has been cut off entirely by the long rains.
Fourth line uses ya for a question and the attributive ramu in concord with it.
Fifth line ends on a noun, naming at last what is detested: the rainy skies.
Author: Koben
Source: Shika Wakashu
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