Omoedomo nao utomarenu harugasumi kakaranu yama mo araji to omoeba - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

思へどもなほ疎まれぬ春霞
かからぬ山もあらじと思へば

Roma-ji: Omoedomo nao utomarenu harugasumi kakaranu yama mo araji to omoeba
English Translation: Though I think of you,
still I cannot help but shun
you, O haze of spring,
for I think there is no mountain
you have failed to cling around
Meaning: Much as I care for you, I still find you hateful, spring haze, for I suspect there is not a mountain you do not wrap yourself around.
Commentary: Book Nineteen Miscellaneous Forms 1032

Headnote: "Topic unknown"
The spring haze that clings to every mountain is likened to a fickle lover who favors everyone; the poet is drawn to them yet cannot help resenting them. Like the preceding poem it treats spring haze, but where that poem yearns to be a young green in the hazy fields, this one treats the haze itself as a fickle lover and spurns it.
The author is unknown and is recorded as "Anonymous."

First line, "Omoedomo," is concessive: though I care for you.
Second line, "nao utomarenu," combines spontaneous "re" and perfective "nu": still I find myself shunning you. The poem breaks here.
Third line, "harugasumi," repeats the first line of the preceding poem, likening the haze that clings to every hill to a fickle lover.
Fourth line, "kakaranu yama mo," means mountains it does not cover.
Fifth line, "araji to omoeba," uses negative conjectural "ji," giving the reason in inverted order: since I think there are none.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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