Sawamizu ni hogushi no kage no utsureru o futa tomoshi to ya shika wa miruramu - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

沢水に火串の影の映れるを
二ともしとや鹿は見るらむ

Roma-ji: Sawamizu ni hogushi no kage no utsureru o futa tomoshi to ya shika wa miruramu
English Translation: In the marsh's waters
the torchlight on its holder
is cast in reflection;
as two hunting fires, perhaps,
the deer perceive it there
Meaning: The light of the hunters' torch is mirrored in the marsh water. Does the deer, seeing it, take it for two hunting fires?
Commentary: Book Two Summer Poems 146

On a summer night, the torch of the deer hunters is mirrored in the marsh, and the poet wonders whether the deer take it for two fires. The lovely scene of firelight on water is turned into a playful view through the eyes of the deer.
Tomoshi was a summer night hunt in which torches were lit to lure deer within bowshot, and it became a theme of summer poetry. The next poem, 147, also sings of this hunt, and the two form a pair.
The text gives no author's name for this poem.

First line, 'sawamizu ni', means in the marsh water.
Second line, 'hogushi no kage no', takes hogushi, the stake that holds the hunting torch, and kage, its light.
Third line, 'utsureru o', means being reflected, ru being the attributive form of the continuative auxiliary ri.
Fourth line, 'futa tomoshi to ya', means as two hunting fires, imagining that the deer mistake the real fire and its reflection for two. The particle ya binds with ramu in the final line.
Final line, 'shika wa miruramu', uses the conjectural ramu, guessing at the deer's mind. Deer appear also in poem 144 in this book and in the next poem, 147.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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