Miyama ni wa arashi ya itaku fukinuramu ajiro mo tawa ni momiji tsumoreri - Shika Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

み山には嵐やいたく吹きぬらむ
網代もたわに紅葉積もれり

Roma-ji: Miyama ni wa arashi ya itaku fukinuramu ajiro mo tawa ni momiji tsumoreri
English Translation: Deep in the mountains
has a storm been blowing fiercely?
So it seems, for here
even the fish weir bends beneath
the crimson leaves heaped up on it.
Meaning: Deep in the mountains the storm must have raged fiercely, for here the fish weir sags beneath the crimson leaves piled upon it.
Commentary: Book Four Winter Poems 151

Headnote: "Composed for a folding screen in the Tenryaku era, on a scene painted of many crimson leaves caught in a fish weir."
A screen poem from the Tenryaku era, the reign of Emperor Murakami, written for a painting of crimson leaves massed against a fish weir. From the weir sagging under drifted leaves, the poet infers a fierce storm in the unseen mountains upstream, extending the scene beyond the frame of the painting.
After the shower poems, the sequence of crimson leaves closes with leaves carried down the river.

First line, “miyama ni wa”: “in the deep mountains,” imagining a distant, unseen place.
Second line, “arashi ya itaku”: the interrogative “ya” calls for the attributive “ramu”: “has the storm fiercely…?”
Third line, “fukinuramu”: completion with present conjecture, guessing at the state of the hidden mountains; the poem breaks here.
Fourth line, “ajiro mo tawa ni”: “so that even the weir bends.” Book Three, poem 137, also sings of a weir strewn with fallen leaves, so the autumn weir passes into the winter one.
Fifth line, “momiji tsumoreri”: the stative “ri” presents the leaves heaped before one’s eyes, set against the conjecture of the upper lines.
Author: Taira no Kanemori
Source: Shika Wakashu
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