Tsurakaraba koishiki koto wa wasurenade soete wa nadoka shizugokoro naki - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

つらからば恋しきことは忘れなで
添へてはなどか静心なき

Roma-ji: Tsurakaraba koishiki koto wa wasurenade soete wa nadoka shizugokoro naki
English Translation: If you prove so cold,
still my longing for you is
not forgotten;
and on top of that, then why
should my heart know no calm?
Meaning: If you are cold to me, I still do not forget my longing; and on top of that, why can my heart find no peace?
Commentary: Book Fifteen Love Poems V 1396

Headnote: "Composed when a man who had long stopped visiting asked whether I had forgotten him."
This is the second poem of the sequence on a severed bond. Though the man is cold, she cannot forget her longing, and her heart is not at peace besides; so she answers the man who asks whether she has forgotten. According to the headnote, it was composed when a man who had long stopped visiting asked whether she had forgotten him.
The author, "Uma no Naishi," was a daughter of Minamoto no Tokiakira, Provisional Head of the Left Stables. She served the Priestess Consort Kishi, Princess Senshi, and Higashisanjō-in Senshi, and became a palace attendant when Teishi was made empress of Emperor Ichijō.

The first line, "tsurakaraba," means "if you are cold."
The second line, "koishiki koto wa," means "my longing."
The third line, "wasurenade," means "without forgetting." To the man's question, "have you forgotten?", she answers that she has not.
The fourth line, "soete wa nadoka," means "and besides, why?"
The last line, "shizugokoro naki," answers "nadoka" with an attributive ending: "have no calm of heart." It is the same word as "shizugokoro naku," the fourth line of 1360, singing of a heart shaken by love.
Author: Uma no Naishi
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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