Au made no katami tote koso todomekeme namida ni ukabu mokuzu narikeri - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

逢ふまでの形見とてこそとどめけめ
涙に浮かぶもくづなりけり

Roma-ji: Au made no katami tote koso todomekeme namida ni ukabu mokuzu narikeri
English Translation: As a keepsake, till
we meet once more, it must be
that you left it here;
yet it is only seaweed scraps
afloat upon my tears.
Meaning: You must have left this behind as a keepsake until we meet again—yet it is no more than scraps of seaweed floating on my tears.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 745

Headnote: "When he had been meeting and talking in deep secrecy with the daughter of a family whose parents kept close watch over her, she was told her parents were calling and hurried back inside, slipping off her train and leaving it behind; afterward, returning the train, he composed this poem"
While he was secretly meeting a daughter whose parents watched her closely, she was called by her parents and hurried back, slipping off her train and leaving it behind; he composed this poem later when returning it. The train left as a keepsake is no more than scraps of seaweed floating in his tears, he says, expressing the sorrow of not meeting through the pivot word joining "mo" (train) and "mo" (seaweed).
It forms a pair with the preceding poem, 744, sharing the phrase "au made no katami"; where that poem lamented the emptiness of keepsakes, this one depicts the concrete scene of returning a keepsake as seaweed floating on tears.
The author, "Okikaze," is Fujiwara no Okikaze. The son of Fujiwara no Michinari, he served as secretary of Sagami and provisional senior secretary of Shimōsa, among other posts. Skilled also in music, he is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

The first line, "au made no," means "until we meet again," the same line that begins the preceding poem.
The second line, "katami tote koso," means "precisely as a keepsake," with the particle "koso" forming a kakari-musubi with "keme" in the third line.
The third line, "todomekeme," means "she must have left it, but," "keme," the perfective form of the past conjectural "kemu," completing the "koso" and leading on adversatively.
The fourth line, "namida ni ukabu," means "floating on my tears," likening tears to the sea or a river.
In the final line, "mokuzu narikeri," "mokuzu" is a pivot word joining "mokuzu" (scraps of seaweed) and "mo," the train the daughter left behind, closing with the exclamatory "keri."
Author: Fujiwara no Okikaze
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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