Satomiko ga miyutate sasa no soyosoyo ni nabiki okifushi yoshi ya yo no naka

里巫女が御湯立て笹のそよそよに
靡き起き伏しよしや世の中

Roma-ji: Satomiko ga miyutate sasa no soyosoyo ni nabiki okifushi yoshi ya yo no naka
English Translation: The village maiden
swings the hot-water bamboo,
soughing, soughing—
it bends and rises and falls:
so be it, this world of ours.
Meaning: Like the bamboo leaves the village shrine maiden swings in the hot-water rite, soughing as they bend, rise and fall, so let it be with this world of ours.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 645

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When I composed many poems on the gods"
As the bamboo the village shrine maiden swings in the hot-water rite bends and rises with a soft rustle, so, the poet says, let the world go as it will. From the scene of the rite he turns to a mind that lives without resisting the world's changes.
The Ruijū text places it in its section on the gods.

Line 1 means "the village shrine maiden."
Line 2 means "of the bamboo of the hot-water rite," in which a maiden dips bamboo in boiling water and sprinkles it.
Line 3 means "soughing," the sound of the bamboo in the air.
Line 4 means "bending, rising, falling," overlaying the bamboo's motion on the ups and downs of human life.
Line 5 means "so be it, the world," yoshi ya expressing acceptance of how things go; it ends on a noun.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
Prev Poem: Kamitsuke no Seta no Akagi no kamiyashiro Yamato ni ikade ato o tarekemu
Next Poem: Mizugaki no hisashiki yo yori yūdasuki kakeshi kokoro wa kami zo shiruramu