Omoikane uchinuru yoi mo arinamashi fuki dani susabe niwa no matsukaze - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

思ひかねうち寝る宵もありなまし
吹きだにすさべ庭の松風

Roma-ji: Omoikane uchinuru yoi mo arinamashi fuki dani susabe niwa no matsukaze
English Translation: Though I cannot bear
this longing, there might have been
evenings of sleep;
at least blow a little less,
wind in the pines of my garden.
Meaning: Even in the ache of longing, there might have been evenings when I dozed off; at least let your blowing ease, wind in the garden pines.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 1304

Headnote: "When a contest of hundred-poem sequences was held at my house."
This is the first poem of the sequence on waiting for a lover, sung through the wind. Even unable to bear my longing, there might have been evenings when I dozed off, the speaker says; at least ease your blowing, wind in the garden pines. According to the headnote, it was composed when the author held a contest of hundred-poem sequences at his house.
The author, "the Regent and Grand Minister," is Fujiwara no Yoshitsune. A son of the Chancellor Kujō Kanezane, he rose to regent and grand minister and was called the Go-Kyōgoku Regent. He wrote the Japanese preface to the Shinkokinshū.

The first line, "omoikane," means "unable to bear the longing."
In the second line, "uchinuru yoi mo," "uchi" is a light prefix: "evenings when I might doze off."
In the third line, "arinamashi," "mashi" expresses a counterfactual: "there might have been such evenings, were it not so." The poem breaks after this line.
In the fourth line, "fuki dani susabe," "susabu" means "to abate": "at least ease your blowing." "Dani" means "at least."
The last line, "niwa no matsukaze," ends on a noun as an address. Taking up the autumn wind of the preceding poem, it opens the sequence on the wind. The sound of the wind in the pines keeps the speaker from sleep and stirs the waiting heart.
Author: Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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