Harukaze no fuku ni mo masaru namida kana waga minakami mo kōri tokurashi - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

春風の吹くにもまさる涙かな
我がみなかみも氷解くらし

Roma-ji: Harukaze no fuku ni mo masaru namida kana waga minakami mo kōri tokurashi
English Translation: Greater than the flood
when the spring winds blow, these tears
of mine, ah, how they flow!
At my own wellspring, too,
the ice, it seems, has melted
Meaning: My tears flow more than the waters swelling as the spring wind blows. It seems that at the source of my own river, too, the ice has melted.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems I 1020

Headnote: "Sent to a woman on a day in the First Month when rain fell and the wind blew."
This is the first of two poems by Kentoku-kō. His tears flow more than the waters swelling as the spring wind melts the ice, and it seems the ice at the source of his own being has melted too. According to the headnote, it was sent to a woman on a day of rain and wind in the First Month.
The author, "Kentoku-kō," is Fujiwara no Koretada. The eldest son of Fujiwara no Morosuke, Minister of the Right, he rose to Regent and Chancellor. Kentoku-kō is the posthumous name given him after his death. His personal collection is the Ichijō Sesshō Gyoshū.
The fourth line of the main text reads "waga minakami mo," which does not match "waga minakami ni" in the kana reading line. The main text is followed here.

The first line, "harukaze no," names the spring wind of the new year's First Month, drawing on the old notion that spring wind melts the ice.
The second line, "fuku ni mo masaru," means "surpassing even the waters swelling as the spring wind blows and melts the ice."
The third line, "namida kana," ends with the exclamatory "kana," and the poem breaks here. The rain of the First Month is laid over tears.
In the fourth line, "minakami" pivots between the source of a river and "mi," oneself. Following the main text, the particle is "mo."
In the last line, "rashi" infers from evidence: since tears flow so, the ice at my own source must have melted. Like Ki no Tsurayuki's poem in the Kokin Wakashū, "sode hichite / musubishi mizu no / kōreru o / haru tatsu kyō no / kaze ya toku ran," it rests on the idea of spring wind melting ice, turning it to love's tears. The next poem is also by Kentoku-kō, continuing his feeling for a woman.
Author: Fujiwara no Koretada
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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