classic waka stream

藤波は君が千歳をまつにこそ
かけて久しく見るべかりけれ
Roma-ji

Fujinami wa kimi ga chitose o matsu ni koso kakete hisashiku miru bekarikere

English Translation
The wisteria waves
upon the pine that awaits
our lord's thousand years
should hang, and for long ages
be gazed upon by all
Meaning
Wisteria is meant to be seen hanging for ages upon the pine, the pine that awaits our lord's thousand years.
Commentary
Book Five Celebration Poems 326

The wisteria, swaying like waves, is meant to be seen hanging for ages on the pine that awaits the sovereign's thousand years, the poem says. With matsu meaning both to wait and pine, it lays over the wisteria clinging to the pine a heart that awaits the reign and its long endurance.
It shares the second line 'kimi ga chitose o' with poem 321 in this book, as well as the pivot word matsu.
From poem 322 through poem 326 in this book come poems celebrating a thousand and ten thousand ages, mingling words tied to the Fujiwara clan such as Mount Mikasa, Ame no Koyane and wisteria.

First line, 'fujinami wa', means the wisteria swaying like waves.
Second line, 'kimi ga chitose o', means our lord's thousand years, the same line as in poem 321 in this book.
Third line, 'matsu ni koso', is a pivot word in which matsu means both to wait and pine, left in kana; it is the same pivot word as 'matsu nareba' in poem 321 in this book. The particle koso binds with the realis kere in the final line.
Fourth line, 'kakete hisashiku', means hanging there for long, a pivot word in which kakete means both the wisteria hanging on the pine and holding something in one's heart, left in kana.
Final line, 'miru bekarikere', means it was meant to be seen, the obligatory beshi with the exclamatory keri.
Source
Kinyo Wakashu
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