Omou na yo ukiyo no naka o idehatete yadoru oku ni mo yado wa arikeri - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

思ふなよ憂き世の中を出ではてて
宿る奥にも宿はありけり

Roma-ji: Omou na yo ukiyo no naka o idehatete yadoru oku ni mo yado wa arikeri
English Translation: Do not think it so—
though from this sad world of ours
you have wholly gone,
even deep past where you lodge
there is lodging further on.
Meaning: Do not think it ends there: even beyond the place you lodge after leaving this sorrowful world behind, there is another lodging still.
Commentary: Book Twenty Buddhist Poems 1942

Headnote: "The Parable of the Phantom City chapter: 'He conjured up a great walled city.'"
This is the second poem in the sequence of Jien's poems on the twenty-eight chapters of the Lotus Sutra. It warns not to think that the journey ends where one has left the sorrowful world entirely and found lodging, for beyond that too there is another lodging. According to the headnote, it was composed on the meaning of "He conjured up a great walled city" from the Parable of the Phantom City chapter of the Lotus Sutra.
Using the image of lodgings on a journey, it warns against resting content with the provisional peace gained by leaving the world, and urges one onward to the true awakening that lies beyond.
No author is named in the text; continuing from the preceding poem, this is a poem by Saki no Daisōjō Jien, a Tendai monk, son of Regent Fujiwara no Tadamichi and younger brother of Kujō Kanezane. He served four times as head abbot of the Tendai school and wrote the historical work Gukanshō.
The Parable of the Phantom City chapter tells how a guide, for travelers exhausted on a steep road, used supernatural power to conjure a great walled city where they could rest; when they had recovered, he told them it was a temporary city and that the place of true treasure lay farther ahead. In this text, one character of the headnote is written as a nonstandard glyph.

The first line, "omou na yo," is a prohibition strengthened by the final particle "yo," sternly warning not to think the journey is over. The poem breaks after it.
The second line, "ukiyo no naka o," is this world of delusion and suffering. The word "yo no naka," repeated since the opening of the book, is here set down as something to be left behind.
The third line, "idehatete," means "having left entirely," showing that one has taken vows and wholly departed the world.
The fourth line, "yadoru oku ni mo," means "even beyond where one lodges," seeing the temporary city of the parable as a lodging on a journey.
The last line, "yado wa arikeri," uses "keri" of realization to show that there is yet another lodging further on. Repeating "yadoru" of the fourth line and "yado" of the last, it highlights that the true lodging lies beyond the temporary one. The word "yado" links it to the "lodging from which none return" in the next poem.
Author: Jien
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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