忍びあまり落つる涙を堰きかへし
押さふる袖よ憂き名漏らすな
押さふる袖よ憂き名漏らすな
- Roma-ji
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Shinobi amari otsuru namida o sekikaeshi osauru sode yo ukina morasu na
- English Translation
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Unable to hide,
the tears that fall I dam up
and push back again:
O sleeve that holds them down,
let no bitter rumor slip.
- Meaning
- O sleeve that dams and holds back the tears I shed when I can hide my love no longer, do not let any bitter rumor slip out.
- Commentary
-
Book Twelve Love Poems II 1122
Headnote: "Composed as a love poem."
This is the third poem of the sequence on sleeves and tears. The speaker calls to the sleeve that dams and holds back tears too many to hide, begging it not to let rumor slip. According to the headnote it was composed as a love poem, and the circumstances are not recorded.
The author, "Anonymous," indicates that the author's name has not come down.
The first line, "shinobi amari," means "unable to hide any longer," a hypermetric line of six syllables. Poem 1129 in this book begins with the same line.
The second line, "otsuru namida o," means "the tears that fall."
The third line, "sekikaeshi," means "damming them and pushing them back." Taking up the damming sleeve and the tear-dyed sleeve of the preceding poems, it sings of a sleeve that pushes tears back.
The fourth line, "osauru sode yo," means "O sleeve that holds them down," addressing the sleeve. Where the "color of the sleeve" in the preceding poem made love known, this sleeve is meant to hide it, so the two poems stand in reversed composition.
The last line, "ukina morasu na," means "let no bitter rumor slip," closing with the prohibitive "na." Like "morasu na yo" in poem 1087 of this book, it forbids "letting slip" in order to protect a hidden love.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Shin Kokin Wakashu
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