Ono ga nami ni onaji sueba zo shiorenuru fuji saku Tako no urameshi no mi ya - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

おのが波に同じ末葉ぞしをれぬる
藤咲く多祜のうらめしの身や

Roma-ji: Ono ga nami ni onaji sueba zo shiorenuru fuji saku Tako no urameshi no mi ya
English Translation: By their own waving
the same last leaves of the branch
have withered away—
at Tako where the wisteria blooms,
how I resent this self of mine!
Meaning: Weighed down by their own waves of blossom, the same last leaves have withered—like the bay of Tako where wisteria blooms, how bitter I am at this self of mine!
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 1482

Headnote: "When I presented a fifty-poem sequence."
This is the tenth and last poem of the sequence on the things of late spring. Overlaying the wisteria whose last leaves wither under its own waves of blossom with the bay of Tako where wisteria blooms, the poet laments a self he resents. According to the headnote, it was composed when he presented a fifty-poem sequence to Retired Emperor Go-Toba.
The author, "Former Archbishop Jien," is Jien. The son of Fujiwara no Tadamichi and younger brother of Kujō Kanezane, he served four times as head of the Tendai school and wrote the historical treatise Gukanshō.
The bay of Tako is a famous place in Etchū, sung since the Man'yōshū as a place for wisteria. The wisteria was a symbol of the Fujiwara clan, and this poem may also be read as the lament of one belonging to the last branches of the Fujiwara line.

The first line, "ono ga nami ni," is hypermetric. The "waves" are wisteria waves, the clusters of wisteria blossoms swaying in the wind likened to waves.
In the second line, "onaji sueba zo," "sueba" overlays the leaves at the branch tips with descendants. The particle "zo" is closed by "nuru" in the third line.
The third line, "shiorenuru," closes the kakari-musubi of the particle "zo" with the attributive form "nuru." It laments that the last leaves of the same wisteria have withered, and the poem breaks after the third line.
The fourth line, "fuji saku Tako no," presents the bay of Tako, famous for wisteria, leading to "ura" in the last line.
In the last line, "urameshi no mi ya," "urameshi" plays on "ura," the bay of Tako, and "urameshi," resentful. It shares the same last line with Jien's poem at 1470 in this book, and closes the sequence by setting the late-spring wisteria at its end.
Author: Jien
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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