Yume ni te mo miyuran mono o nagekitsutsu uchinuru yoi no sode no keshiki wa - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

夢にても見ゆらんものを嘆きつつ
うち寝る宵の袖のけしきは

Roma-ji: Yume ni te mo miyuran mono o nagekitsutsu uchinuru yoi no sode no keshiki wa
English Translation: Even in a dream
it must surely show to you,
as I sigh and sigh,
the look of my sleeves at night
when I lie down to sleep.
Meaning: Even in your dreams you must surely see it: the state of my sleeves in the evening, as I lie down to sleep, sighing all the while.
Commentary: Book Twelve Love Poems II 1124

Headnote: "From a hundred-poem sequence."
This is the first poem of a sequence on dreams. The speaker says that the state of her tear-soaked sleeves, as she lies down sighing at evening, must surely show to the beloved even in dreams. According to the headnote, it is one poem from a hundred-poem sequence.
The author is Princess Shokushi, a daughter of Emperor Go-Shirakawa. She served as high priestess of the Kamo Shrines and studied poetry with Fujiwara no Shunzei.

The first line, "yume ni te mo," means "even in a dream." From here to poem 1127 in this book, poems of dreams follow one another.
The second line, "miyuran mono o," means "it must surely show, and yet," with "ran" the present conjectural and "mono o" an adversative exclamation. The poem breaks after the second line, and through inversion "sode no keshiki wa" in the last line becomes the subject.
The third line, "nagekitsutsu," means "sighing on and on," with "tsutsu" marking continued action.
The fourth line, "uchinuru yoi no," means "of the evening when I lie down to sleep," with "uchi" a prefix that smooths the rhythm.
The last line, "sode no keshiki wa," means "the look of my sleeves." Taking up the sequence of sleeves and tears, it shows a heart that longs for the tear-soaked sleeves to reach the beloved through dreams. It rests on the belief of the time that one could appear to another in a dream.
Author: Princess Shokushi
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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