Mi ni soeru sono omokage no kienanan yume narikeri to wasuru bakari ni - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

身に添へるその面影の消えななん
夢なりけりと忘るばかりに

Roma-ji: Mi ni soeru sono omokage no kienanan yume narikeri to wasuru bakari ni
English Translation: The image of you
that clings so close to me:
let it fade away,
till I can forget and say,
"it was only a dream."
Meaning: Let the image of you that clings so close to me vanish, until I can forget it all and tell myself it was only a dream.
Commentary: Book Twelve Love Poems II 1126

Headnote: "At the Poetry Contest in Fifteen Hundred Rounds."
This is the third poem of the sequence on dreams. The speaker wishes the image of the beloved, which clings so close, would vanish, so that he could forget and call it a dream. According to the headnote, it was composed for the Poetry Contest in Fifteen Hundred Rounds.
The author, "Regent and Grand Chancellor," is Fujiwara no Yoshitsune. The son of Regent Kujō Kanezane, he rose to regent and grand chancellor and wrote the kana preface to the Shin Kokinshū.

The first line, "mi ni soeru," means "that clings close to me," with "ru" the attributive of the continuative "ri."
The second line, "sono omokage no," means "the image of you."
The third line, "kienanan," means "may it vanish," the irrealis "na" of the perfective "nu" joined to "nan," which expresses a wish directed at something else. The poem breaks after the third line.
The fourth line, "yume narikeri to," is the same as the second line of the preceding poem. Where that poem found the lingering trace dear though it was a dream, this one longs to forget even a real meeting as a dream, using the same line to show a reversed heart.
The last line, "wasuru bakari ni," means "so that I may forget," and through inversion returns to the wish of the third line. So tormented by the image is the speaker that he would forget the meeting itself as a dream.
Author: Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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