Moshio yaku ama no isoya no yūkeburi tatsu na mo kurushi omoi taenade - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

藻塩焼く海人の磯屋の夕煙
立つ名も苦しおもひ絶えなで

Roma-ji: Moshio yaku ama no isoya no yūkeburi tatsu na mo kurushi omoi taenade
English Translation: As the evening smoke
rises from the fishers' huts
burning brine for salt,
rising rumor, too, is pain,
while the fire of love burns on.
Meaning: As evening smoke rises from the shoreside huts of fishers burning seaweed for salt, so rumors rise about me, and that too is painful, while the fire of my love never dies away.
Commentary: Book Twelve Love Poems II 1116

Headnote: "Composed on 'Love at Evening.'"
This is the second of three poems on love linked to fishers burning salt. As evening smoke rises from the fishers' shoreside huts, rumors rise, and that too is painful, while the fire of love burns on. According to the headnote, it was composed on the topic "Love at Evening."
The author is Fujiwara no Hideyoshi, who served Retired Emperor Go-Toba as a guard of the north quarters and was valued as a poet. He later took vows under the name Nyogan.

The first line, "moshio yaku," means "burning seaweed for salt," taking up "shio yaku ama" in the preceding poem and continuing the fishers' salt fires.
The second line, "ama no isoya no," means "of the fishers' huts on the rocky shore."
The third line, "yūkeburi," is smoke rising at evening, and here the "evening" of the topic is worked in. The lines up to here form a preface leading to "tatsu" in the fourth line. As with the smoke smoldering in the sky in poem 1082 of this book, the smoke of salt fires is bound to thoughts of love.
The fourth line, "tatsu na mo kurushi," means "rising rumor, too, is painful," and the poem breaks after the fourth line. Smoke rising and rumor rising are laid over one another.
In the last line, "omoi taenade," "omoi" holds both "omoi," longing, and "hi," fire, bound by association to the salt burning and the smoke. "Taenade" means "without dying away," and through inversion it returns to the fourth line, voicing the pain of rumors rising while the fire of love never dies.
Author: Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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