Omoiiru mi wa fukakusa no aki no tsuyu tanomeshi sue ya kogarashi no kaze - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

思ひ入る身はふかくさの秋の露
頼めし末や木枯らしの風

Roma-ji: Omoiiru mi wa fukakusa no aki no tsuyu tanomeshi sue ya kogarashi no kaze
English Translation: Deep in my longing,
I am dew on Fukakusa,
autumn's fleeting dew;
the end of all you promised—
is it the withering wind?
Meaning: Lost in deep longing, I am like the autumn dew on the fields of Fukakusa. Is the end of the promise you let me trust only the withering wind that scatters that dew?
Commentary: Book Fifteen Love Poems V 1337

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed for the Minase Poetry Contest on Fifteen Love Topics."
This is the second poem of the dew sequence. The speaker likens herself, lost in deep longing, to autumn dew at Fukakusa, and laments that the end of the promise she was made to trust may be the withering wind that scatters the dew. Like the preceding poem, it was presented at the Minase Poetry Contest on Fifteen Love Topics.
The author, "Fujiwara no Ietaka Ason," is Ietaka, son of Provisional Middle Counselor Fujiwara no Mitsutaka. He studied poetry under Fujiwara no Shunzei and became one of the compilers of the Shin Kokinshū.
Fukakusa lay in Kii District of Yamashiro Province, in present-day Fushimi Ward, Kyoto. Since Episode 123 of The Tales of Ise, where it is the village of a woman whose lover is growing weary of her, it has been sung as a desolate field, together with quail and dew.

The first line, "omoiiru," means "sunk in deep longing."
In the second line, "mi wa fukakusa no," "fukakusa" is a pivot word joining "fukaku" (deeply) and the place name Fukakusa. The depth of feeling passes straight into the landscape of the Fukakusa fields.
In the third line, "aki no tsuyu," the speaker is likened to dew. Taking up the dewdrop tears of the parting in the preceding poem, it is set down as something that vanishes easily.
In the fourth line, "tanomeshi sue ya," "tanomeshi" means "that you made me trust." "Sue" means the end to come, and as a word associated with grass it also suggests the tips of the leaves. The particle "ya" expresses doubt.
The last line, "kogarashi no kaze," ends on a noun. The winter wind that scatters dew shows where the promise has ended. The "autumn wind" of the preceding poem grows here into the "withering wind," an arrangement in which love's decline advances with the turning season.
Author: Fujiwara no Ietaka
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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