Ayamegusa waga mi no uki o hikikaete nabete naranu ni oi mo idenamu - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

あやめ草我が身の憂きを引きかへて
なべてならぬに生ひも出でなむ

Roma-ji: Ayamegusa waga mi no uki o hikikaete nabete naranu ni oi mo idenamu
English Translation: O sweet flag, I pray,
in exchange for all the woes
that weigh upon me,
may you grow up and emerge
in a form beyond the common
Meaning: O sweet flag, in exchange for all the sorrows of my life, may you spring forth in a form far beyond the ordinary.
Commentary: Book Two Summer Poems 131

Addressing the sweet flag, the poet wishes that, in exchange for his own sorrowful lot, it might spring forth in an extraordinary form. Playing on hiku, to pull the sweet flag, he expresses the wish to trade away his own misery.
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, Eien, was a son of Fujiwara no Nagasuke and a monk of Kōfukuji. He rose to Provisional Archbishop and, for his poems on the cuckoo, was called the Archbishop of the First Song.

First line, 'ayamegusa', is the one addressed, the sweet flag of the Tango festival.
Second line, 'waga mi no uki o', means my wretched self, showing the poet's feeling about his own lot.
Third line, 'hikikaete', means in exchange, an associated word with pulling the sweet flag.
Fourth line, 'nabete naranu ni', means in a way that is not ordinary, an excellence beyond the common.
Final line, 'oi mo idenamu', uses namu, a final particle expressing a wish directed at another: may you grow forth.
Author: Yoen
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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