Nushi ya tare kiru hito nashi ni fujibakama mireba nogoto ni hokorobinikeri - Shika Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

主や誰着る人なしに藤袴
見れば野ごとにほころびにけり

Roma-ji: Nushi ya tare kiru hito nashi ni fujibakama mireba nogoto ni hokorobinikeri
English Translation: Who can be its owner?
With no one there to wear it,
the purple trousers,
everywhere I look in the fields,
have come apart at the seams
Meaning: Who could their owner be? Though no one wears them, the purple "trousers" of the boneset have burst open at the seams in every field I see.
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 115

This is a poem by the monk Ryūgen. From the hakama, trousers, in the flower name fujibakama, he imagines clothing and likens the opening blossoms to trousers splitting at the seams, asking whose they are when no one wears them.
It is a witty poem that joins the opening of flowers and the coming apart of a garment's seams in hokorobu, drawing on the tradition since the Kokinshū of likening fujibakama to clothing.

The first line, "nushi ya tare," asks "who is the owner?" and the poem pauses here.
The second line, "kiru hito nashi ni," means "though no one wears them," treating the hakama as clothing.
The third line, "fujibakama," is one of the seven flowers of autumn, and hakama in its name suggests clothing.
The fourth line, "mireba nogoto ni," means "when I look, in every field."
In the last line, "hokorobinikeri," hokorobu is a pivot word meaning both that flowers open and that a garment comes apart at the seams, an associated word with hakama.
Author: Ryūgen
Source: Shika Wakashu
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