かく恋ひむものとは我も思ひにき
心のうらぞまさしかりける
心のうらぞまさしかりける
- Roma-ji
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Kaku koimu mono to wa ware mo omoiniki kokoro no ura zo masashikarikeru
- English Translation
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That I would love you
so deeply, I too had thought
in the days gone by:
the heart's own divining
has proved to be true indeed.
- Meaning
- I too had known I would love you like this; my heart's own foretelling has proved all too true.
- Commentary
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Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 700
Headnote: "Topic unknown"
The poem likens the speaker's own premonition to divination: things have turned out just as foreseen, with love's pain. At the premonition from love's beginning having come true, a mingled grief and resignation seeps through.
Following "waga koime ya wa" in the preceding poem, it reframes the depth of love as a premonition fulfilled, "kaku koimu."
The first line, "kaku koimu," means "that I would love like this," using the conjectural "mu."
The second line, "mono to wa ware mo," means "I too, that it would be so," the particle "mo" showing that the speaker had foreseen it.
The third line, "omoiniki," means "I had thought," the perfective "nu" joined to the past "ki"; the poem pauses here.
In the fourth line, "kokoro no ura zo," "ura" is a pivot word meaning both the inner heart and divination, with the particle "zo" forming a kakari-musubi with "keru" in the last line.
The final line, "masashikarikeru," means "it has proved true," closing in the attributive form in answer to "zo."
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
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