Hito furusu sato o itoite koshikadomo nara no miyako mo uki na narikeri - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

人ふるす里を厭ひて来しかども
奈良の都も憂き名なりけり

Roma-ji: Hito furusu sato o itoite koshikadomo nara no miyako mo uki na narikeri
English Translation: Weary of the place
where people are cast aside,
I came here, and yet
even Nara's old capital
bears a name of bitterness.
Meaning: I came here to escape a place where people are grown tired of and cast aside, but even the old capital of Nara, I find, has a name for sorrow.
Commentary: Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Poems II 986

Headnote: "Composed when I stayed at the old capital of Nara on my way to worship at Hatsuse"
This was composed when the poet stayed at the old capital of Nara on the way to worship at Hatsuse. She had come away from the capital, a place where people grow tired of one another and cast each other aside, only to find that Nara too was an aging capital neglected by all, bearing a name of sorrow.
Overlapping a place that makes people "old" with Nara, grown old since the capital moved away, the poem laments that there is no place of rest anywhere. It is one of the poems on villages and dwellings that continue from 981 in this book.
The author, "Nijō," is a woman whose life is unknown; the name appears to be a name used by a lady-in-waiting at court.

The first line, "where people are cast aside," renders furusu, "to make old, to tire of and discard."
The second line, "weary of the place," means disliking that village.
The third line, "I came here, and yet," uses shi, the attributive of the past ki, and kadomo, "although."
The fourth line, "even Nara's old capital," refers to the capital left behind when the court moved.
The last line, "bears a name of bitterness," ends with the exclamatory keri.
Author: Nijō
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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