Au koto no hisashi ni fukeru ayamegusa tada karisome no tsuma to koso mire - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

逢ふことのひさしに葺けるあやめ草
ただかりそめのつまとこそ見れ

Roma-ji: Au koto no hisashi ni fukeru ayamegusa tada karisome no tsuma to koso mire
English Translation: Our meetings long gone,
like the iris thatched upon
the eaves for a while,
you are but a passing thing,
a husband at the edge
Meaning: It has been so long since we met; like the iris laid on the eaves for a season, I see you only as a husband for a passing while.
Commentary: Book Eight Love Poems II 436

Now that their meetings have long ceased, the poet sees the man as no more than a passing husband, like the iris thatched on the eaves that stays at the edge of the roof only for a while. Through the iris laid on the eaves at the Iris Festival, the poem expresses with layered pivot words her cooled feelings toward a man who no longer visits.
Poem 449 in this book also uses hisashi and tsuma as pivot words to lament a lover whose visits have stopped, forming a pair with this poem. It also answers the ayamegusa sung in poems 350 and 389 of Book Seven.
The author, Kawachi of the Former Ise Priestess, was a lady poet called Kawachi who served a former Ise Priestess. She was one of the poets of the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequences.

First line, 'au koto no', means of meeting my beloved.
Second line, 'hisashi ni fukeru', is a pivot word in which hisashi means both long in time and the eaves, left in kana. It uses ru, the attributive of the stative ri, meaning thatched upon the eaves.
Third line, 'ayamegusa', is the iris, laid on the eaves at the Iris Festival.
Fourth line, 'tada karisome no', is a pivot word in which karisome means both passing, temporary, and cutting the iris, left in kana.
Final line, 'tsuma to koso mire', is a pivot word in which tsuma means both the edge of the eaves and a husband, left in kana. It closes with koso and the perfective form mire. Tsuma naramu in the third line of poem 449 in this book uses the same pivot word.
Author: Former Ise Priestess's Kawachi
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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