Kinō tomo kyō tomo shirazu ima wa tote wakareshi hodo no kokoromadoi ni - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

昨日とも今日とも知らず今はとて
別れしほどの心まどひに

Roma-ji: Kinō tomo kyō tomo shirazu ima wa tote wakareshi hodo no kokoromadoi ni
English Translation: Yesterday, today,
I could not tell one from one;
"This is the end," you said,
and since the hour of parting
my heart has been in turmoil.
Meaning: I could not tell whether it was yesterday or today, so troubled was my heart since the moment we parted, when you said this was the end.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 1238

Headnote: "Reply."
This is the fifth poem of the sequence of love exchanges, a reply to the preceding poem. She answers that, in the turmoil of the parting when he said it was the end, she could not tell yesterday from today.
The author, "Princess Keishi (Mother of the Posthumous Empress)," is a daughter of Prince Yoshiakira and the wife of Fujiwara no Koretada, author of the preceding poem. The added note, "Mother of the Posthumous Empress," means the mother of one who was granted the rank of empress after death.
In the main text, the last line reads "kokoromadoi ni," which does not match "kokoromayoi ni" in the reading line. Here the main text is followed.

The first line, "kinō tomo," takes up "kinō kyō koso" in the second line of the preceding poem.
The second line, "kyō tomo shirazu," continues: "I could not tell whether it was yesterday or today." Where the man counted two days as a thousand years, the woman answers that she could not count the days at all, showing that she had lost all sense of time.
The third line, "ima wa tote," means "saying this is the end." It refers to his leaving with the vow, told in the preceding headnote, never to come again.
The fourth line, "wakareshi hodo no," means "of the time we parted." It answers with the same word as "wakarete wa," the first line of the preceding poem.
The last line, "kokoromadoi ni," means "because of my heart's turmoil." Held back until the end in an inverted order, the reason is revealed last; against the man's exaggeration, she offers her disturbed heart just as it is.
Author: Princess Keishi
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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