Kiewabinu utsurou hito no aki no iro ni mi o kogarashi no mori no shiratsuyu - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

消えわびぬうつろふ人の秋の色に
身をこがらしの森の白露

Roma-ji: Kiewabinu utsurou hito no aki no iro ni mi o kogarashi no mori no shiratsuyu
English Translation: I cannot fade away:
in the autumn hue of one
whose heart has changed, I
burn, the white dew of the wood
where the withering wind blows.
Meaning: I can neither vanish nor endure: in the autumn color of a heart that is changing, I burn myself away like the white dew in the Forest of the Withering Wind.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 1320

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "For the Poetry Contest in Fifteen Hundred Rounds."
This is the third poem of the sequence of love's grief sung through autumn imagery. Burning in the autumn color of a changing heart, the speaker says, I can neither fade nor endure, like the white dew in the Forest of the Withering Wind. Continuing from the preceding poem, it was submitted to the Poetry Contest in Fifteen Hundred Rounds.
The author, "Teika, Lord of the Court," is Fujiwara no Teika. A son of Fujiwara no Shunzei, he was one of the compilers of the Shinkokinshū and later compiled the Shinchokusenshū on his own.
The Forest of the Withering Wind, Kogarashi no Mori, is a poetic place in Suruga Province, sung as a forest bearing the name of the wintry wind.
In the main text, the last line reads "mori no shiratsuyu," which does not match "mori no shitatsuyu" in the reading line. Here the main text is followed.

The first line, "kiewabinu," means "I suffer, unable to vanish," and the poem breaks after it. The vanishing of dew is overlaid on the vanishing of life.
The second line, "utsurou hito no," means "of the one whose heart is changing." It takes up "utsurishi" in the preceding poem.
The third line, "aki no iro ni," has six syllables, one more than the norm, and means "in the color of autumn." Autumn is overlaid with the other's weariness of love, whose color has become visible.
In the fourth line, "mi o kogarashi no," "kogarashi" is a pivot word meaning both "to burn oneself" and the "withering wind" of the forest's name.
The last line, "mori no shiratsuyu," ends on a noun. The white dew in the forest, about to vanish in the withering wind, is overlaid with a self burning in love and on the verge of fading, answering "kiewabinu" in the first line.
Author: Fujiwara no Teika
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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