Wabinureba shiite wasuremu to omoedomo yume to iu mono zo hitodanome naru - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

わびぬれば強ひて忘れむと思へども
夢といふものぞ人頼めなる

Roma-ji: Wabinureba shiite wasuremu to omoedomo yume to iu mono zo hitodanome naru
English Translation: Since I am in such grief,
I try hard to forget you, and yet,
what we call a dream
is a thing that keeps
raising hopes within us.
Meaning: Weary with grief, I try hard to forget you, and yet dreams are things that keep raising my hopes again.
Commentary: Book Twelve Love Poems II 569

Headnote: "A poem from the poetry contest held at the residence of the Empress in the Kanpyō era"
The poet says that, suffering from love, he tries to force himself to forget the beloved, but cannot, because the beloved keeps appearing in his dreams and raising his hopes. The poem depicts the struggle between the will to forget and the feelings that dreams reawaken. Whereas Komachi's poem at the head of this book relies on dreams, here dreams are sung of as something that prevents forgetting. It was composed for the Kanpyō-era Empress's poetry contest and is placed within the run of poems from that contest.
Fujiwara no Okikaze was a poet of the early Heian period, a great-grandson of Fujiwara no Hamanari and the son of Fujiwara no Michinari. He served as Secretary of Sagami and Provisional Senior Secretary of Shimōsa. He was also known as a master of the koto and is one of the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals.

First line, "wabinureba": wabu means to be troubled or distressed, nure is the perfective form of the completion auxiliary nu, and ba marks a cause: "since I am in such distress."
Second line, "shiite wasuremu to": shiite means forcibly, and mu expresses intention. The line has eight syllables, one more than the norm.
Third line, "omoedomo": the concessive domo turns to the fourth line, "though I think to forget."
Fourth line, "yume to iu mono zo": the binding particle zo strongly singles out dreams and pairs with naru in the last line. Like "yume chō mono wa" in 553 of this book, it takes dreams themselves as the theme, and the heart that relies on dreams and the heart troubled by them form a pair.
Fifth line, "hitodanome naru": hitodanome means giving someone false hope. Naru is the attributive of the copula nari, resolving zo.
Author: Fujiwara no Okikaze
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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