Uchiwabite yobawamu koe ni yamabiko no kotaenu yama wa araji to zo omou - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

うちわびて呼ばはむ声に山彦の
答へぬ山はあらじとぞ思ふ

Roma-ji: Uchiwabite yobawamu koe ni yamabiko no kotaenu yama wa araji to zo omou
English Translation: Worn down by longing
at the voice with which I call
I think there's no hill
whose echo would not answer
none that would stay silent
Meaning: Worn out with the pain of love, I think there is no mountain whose echo would fail to answer the voice with which I keep calling.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems I 539

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The poem sings that if the poet, worn out with the pain of love, keeps calling the beloved's name, the echo of every mountain will surely answer. Unspoken within it lies the irony that though the echo answers, the beloved does not. The loneliness of a love that calls without reply is entrusted to a voice echoing among the hills.

First line, "Worn down by longing": wabu means to be troubled or distressed, and uchi is a prefix that adjusts the rhythm.
Second line, "at the voice with which I call": yobau means to call repeatedly, the voice calling the beloved's name.
Third line, "I think there's no hill": yamabiko is the echo in the mountains. Poem 521 of this book also sings of the echo, lamenting so loudly for a cold beloved that the echo answered.
Fourth line, "whose echo would not answer": kotaenu yama wa means a mountain that does not answer.
Fifth line, "none that would stay silent": araji to zo omou means "I think there is none," with ji negative conjecture and zo forming a kakari-musubi with omou. Unspoken is the contrast that the mountains always answer while the beloved does not.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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