Hio no yoru kawase ni miyuru ajirogi wa tatsu shiranami no utsu ni ya aruramu - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

氷魚の寄る川瀬に見ゆる網代木は
立つ白波のうつにやあるらむ

Roma-ji: Hio no yoru kawase ni miyuru ajirogi wa tatsu shiranami no utsu ni ya aruramu
English Translation: Where the ice fish come,
in the shallows they are seen,
the stakes of the weir:
have the rising white waves
driven them in, I wonder
Meaning: The weir stakes seen in the shallows where the ice fish gather, could it be that the rising white waves have driven them in?
Commentary: Book Four Winter Poems 267

Seeing the stakes of a fish weir standing in the shallows where the ice fish gather, the poet wonders whether the white waves drove them in. The waves beating ceaselessly against the stakes are seen as if they were hammering them home.
This poem and the next poem, 268, both sing of ice fish drawn to the weirs, forming a pair on the winter scenery of rivers.
The author was Higo, a daughter of Fujiwara no Sadanari, Governor of Higo, who served in the household of the Kyōgoku Regent Fujiwara no Morozane. She was one of the poets of the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequences.

First line, 'hio no yoru', means where the ice fish gather, hio being the fry of sweetfish, a winter sight on rivers. The next poem, 268, also sings of 'the ice fish drawn'.
Second line, 'kawase ni miyuru', means seen in the river shallows.
Third line, 'ajirogi wa', are the stakes driven into the river to hold up the fish weir.
Fourth line, 'tatsu shiranami no', means of the rising white waves, the waves beating on the stakes.
Final line, 'utsu ni ya aruramu', is a pivot word in which utsu means both the waves striking and the stakes being driven, left in kana. The particle ya binds with the attributive ramu to pose a question.
Author: Kyōgoku Kanpaku-ke no Higo
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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