classic waka stream

玉江にや今日のあやめを引きつらむ
磨ける宿のつまに見ゆるは
Roma-ji

Tamae ni ya kyō no ayame o hikitsuramu migakeru yado no tsuma ni miyuru wa

English Translation
Was it in Tamae
that today's sweet flag was pulled,
I cannot but wonder,
that I see along the eaves
of this house so finely polished
Meaning
Was this day's sweet flag pulled from the bay of Tamae? So I wonder, seeing it on the eaves of this finely polished house.
Commentary
Book Two Summer Poems 130

The sweet flag on the eaves of a finely polished house is so splendid that the poet guesses it must have been pulled from the bay of Tamae. Using the associated words tama, jewel, and migaku, to polish, the poem praises both the gleaming house and the beautiful sweet flag.
From poem 127 through poem 134 in this book come poems on the sweet flag, which was hung from the eaves and whose roots were compared for length at the Tango festival on the fifth day of the Fifth Month.
The author, Kinzane, is Fujiwara no Kinzane. A son of Fujiwara no Sanesue, he rose to Provisional Major Counselor and also served as Master of the Crown Prince's Household. He was an active poet in the circle of Emperor Horikawa.

First line, 'tamae ni ya', takes Tamae, a bay counted as a poetic place in Echizen and elsewhere, and ya binds with ramu in the third line. Tama is an associated word with 'polished' in the fourth line. Tamae also appears in poem 137 in this book.
Second line, 'kyō no ayame o', uses kyō for the day of the Tango festival.
Third line, 'hikitsuramu', means has it been pulled, tsu being perfective and ramu conjectural. The poem breaks after the third line and the lower half is inverted.
Fourth line, 'migakeru yado no', is the finely polished house, a splendid dwelling.
Final line, 'tsuma ni miyuru wa', uses tsuma for the edge of the eaves, where the sweet flag is seen.
Author
Fujiwara no Kinzane
Source
Kinyo Wakashu
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