Saritomo to tanomu kokoro no yukusue mo omoeba shiranu yo ni makasu ramu - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

さりともと頼む心の行く末も
思へば知らぬ世にまかすらむ

Roma-ji: Saritomo to tanomu kokoro no yukusue mo omoeba shiranu yo ni makasu ramu
English Translation: "Still, some day," I think,
and even where the trusting heart
will come out at last
is, when I think it through, left
to a world that none can know.
Meaning: Even the future of the heart that trusts, "Still, some day," is, when I think of it, left to a world whose course no one can know.
Commentary: Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Poems III 1773

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown."
This is the ninth of the poems on a heart that loathes the world yet cannot cast it off. Even where the heart that trusts "still, some day" will end up is, on reflection, left to an unknowable world. It tells of the forlornness of having to entrust even what one relies on to an uncertain world.
The author, "Kamo no Shigeyasu," was a chief priest of the Kamo Wakeikazuchi Shrine. He compiled the private anthology Tsukimōde Wakashū.

The first line, "saritomo to," means "still, some day." It is the same phrase as the third line of 1770 in this book, where it stood for a heart that puts off the Buddhist path.
The second line, "tanomu kokoro no," means "of the heart that trusts."
The third line, "yukusue mo," means "even where that heart will end."
The fourth line, "omoeba shiranu," means "which, on reflection, cannot be known," and modifies "world" in the last line.
In the last line, "yo ni makasu ramu," "ramu" is an auxiliary of present conjecture. The realization that the trusting heart itself is left to an impermanent world shows how precarious is what one relies on.
Author: Kamo no Shigeyasu
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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