Omou koto ōharayama no sumigama wa itodo nageki no kazu o koso tsume - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

思ふことおほはら山の炭竈は
いとどなげきの数をこそ積め

Roma-ji: Omou koto ōharayama no sumigama wa itodo nageki no kazu o koso tsume
English Translation: With cares so many,
the charcoal kilns of the mount
of Ōhara—
all the more the logs of grief
they only heap up higher.
Meaning: On Mount Ōhara, where cares are many, the charcoal kilns only heap up more and more logs of grief.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1641

Headnote: "In reply."
This is the third poem of the sequence on mountains of renunciation and the reply to the preceding poem. On Mount Ōhara, where cares are many, the charcoal kilns only heap up griefs as they heap up firewood, she answers.
The author, "the Nun of Shōshōi," was a nun who lived at Ōhara.
Ōhara was known as a village of charcoal-burning and is often sung together with charcoal kilns.

The first line, "omou koto," means "the cares I brood on."
The second line, "ōharayama no," pivots on "ōhara," cares being "many," "ōkari," and the place name Ōhara. It answers "ōharayama wa" of the preceding poem.
The third line, "sumigama wa," is the charcoal kilns for which Ōhara was known.
The fourth line, "itodo nageki no," pivots on "nageki," both "grief" and "nage-ki," logs thrown into the kiln. "Charcoal kiln" and "thrown logs" are associated words.
The last line, "kazu o koso tsume," closes the kakari-musubi of "koso" with the realis form "tsume." To the question "was it good to live in?" of the preceding poem, she answers that far from being so, only griefs piled up.
Author: The Nun of Shōshōi
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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