Tanomi arite ima yukusue o matsu hito ya suguru tsukihi o nagekazaru ramu - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

頼みありて今行く末を待つ人や
過ぐる月日を嘆かざるらむ

Roma-ji: Tanomi arite ima yukusue o matsu hito ya suguru tsukihi o nagekazaru ramu
English Translation: Those who have their hopes
and are waiting for the future
that is still to come—
do they not lament at all
the months and days that slip away?
Meaning: Do those who have something to hope for and are waiting for their future not lament the passing months and days?
Commentary: Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Poems III 1839

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown."
This is the fourth of the poems on resenting and lamenting the world. Do those who have something to rely on and await their future not lament the passing months and days? He compares himself, lamenting the passing days without hope, with those who hold hopes for the future.
The author, "Hokkyō Gyōhen," was a monk of the late Heian through Kamakura periods. Hokkyō is one of the Buddhist clerical ranks.

The first line, "tanomi arite," means "having something to rely on." It has six syllables, one over the norm.
The second line, "ima yukusue o," means "now, the future."
In the third line, "matsu hito ya," "ya" is a particle of question. It refers to those who wait with hope for the future.
The fourth line, "suguru tsukihi o," means "the passing months and days," the same phrase as in 1824 of this book.
The last line, "nagekazaru ramu," closes the kakari-musubi of "ya" with the attributive form of the present conjectural "ramu." By wondering about those with hope, it shows in reverse the grief of one who has none.
Author: Gyōhen
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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