Sumiyoshi no matsu to seshi ma ni toshi mo henu chigi no katasogi yukiawazu shite

住吉のまつとせしまに年も経ぬ
千木のかたそぎ行き合はずして

Roma-ji: Sumiyoshi no matsu to seshi ma ni toshi mo henu chigi no katasogi yukiawazu shite
English Translation: While I meant to wait
like the pines of Sumiyoshi,
the years have gone by,
like the slant-cut shrine-roof beams
that never come to meet.
Meaning: While I thought to wait like the pines of Sumiyoshi, the years have gone by, and like the slant-cut crossbeams of the shrine roof, we never come to meet.
Commentary: Love Poems 492

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on the theme of love at famous places"
While the poet meant to wait like the pines of Sumiyoshi, the years have passed; like the slant-cut crossbeams atop the Sumiyoshi shrine whose tips never meet, he and his beloved remain apart.
Kamo no Mabuchi criticized the poet for adopting a poem from the Kokin Waka Rokujō on the magpies' meeting that had been altered to katasogi and falsely passed off as a poem of the Sumiyoshi god.

Line 1 means "of Sumiyoshi" in Settsu, the same place as Suminoe in the preceding poem.
Line 2 plays on the pines of Sumiyoshi and "while I meant to wait," taking up "waiting" from the preceding poem.
Line 3 means "the years have passed," and the poem pauses here; it states outright what the preceding poems' last lines conjectured.
Line 4 names the slant-cut tips of the crossbeams projecting from the shrine roof.
Line 5 means "without meeting," overlaying the beams that never touch and lovers who never meet; it is inverted.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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