Aoigusa kazura ni kakete chihayaburu Kamo no matsuri o neru ya ta ga ko zo

葵草鬘にかけてちはやぶる
賀茂の祭りを練るや誰が子ぞ

Roma-ji: Aoigusa kazura ni kakete chihayaburu Kamo no matsuri o neru ya ta ga ko zo
English Translation: Heart-shaped hollyhock
wound and hung upon his hair,
in the festival
of the mighty gods of Kamo,
whose child is that parading?
Meaning: With hollyhock leaves wound into his hair, who is that young man parading in the procession of the sacred Kamo festival?
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 624

Headnote: "Composed on the same shrine"
On the Kamo shrine, the poet sees a young man parading in the festival procession with hollyhock leaves in his hair and wonders whose child he is. The brilliance of the festival is vividly drawn. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a sign of praise.
The Ruijū text places it in its section on the gods under the title "A poem on the Kamo festival." The Ruijū text and the text transmitted by Teika differ by one letter in line 5.

Line 1 means "hollyhock," used at the Kamo festival, also called the Hollyhock Festival.
Line 2 means "hung as a hair ornament."
Line 3, chihayaburu, is a pillow word for "god," here leading to Kamo, the same pillow word as in 622.
Line 4 means "through the Kamo festival."
Line 5 means "whose child is it that parades?" neru meaning to move slowly in procession.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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