Ko no moto ni kakiatsumetsuru koto no ha o Hahaso no mori no katami to wa miyo - Shika Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

このもとにかきあつめつる言の葉を
ははその森の形見とは見よ

Roma-ji: Ko no moto ni kakiatsumetsuru koto no ha o Hahaso no mori no katami to wa miyo
English Translation: The leaves of words
gathered up and written down
beneath the tree by her child —
look on them as keepsakes
of the Hahaso woods
Meaning: These leaves of words that I, her child, have gathered beneath the tree — look on them as keepsakes of the oak woods of Hahaso, of my mother.
Commentary: Book Ten Miscellaneous Poems II 380

Overlaying leaves raked together beneath a tree with a dead mother's poems gathered by her child, the poem seems to ask that they be seen as keepsakes of the mother. With "hahaso" (oak) suggesting "haha" (mother), "ko" both tree and child, and "kaki-atsume" both raking and writing down, it entrusts a child's remembrance of his mother to a scene of fallen leaves in a wood.
Poem 398 of this book likewise overlays "ko no moto" with a child.

The first line, "ko no moto ni," is a pivot word joining "beneath the tree" and "with me, the child."
The second line, "kakiatsumetsuru," is a pivot word joining raking leaves together and writing poems down, with the attributive perfective "tsuru."
The third line, "koto no ha o" (leaves of words), means words or poems, "ha" (leaves) associated with the tree.
The fourth line, "Hahaso no mori no," is a pivot word joining the Hahaso woods, a poetic place in Yamashiro, with "haha" (mother).
The final line, "katami to wa miyo," ends with the imperative "miyo": see them as keepsakes.
Source: Shika Wakashu
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