Omoedomo omowazu to nomi iu nareba ina ya omowaji omou kai nashi - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

思へども思はずとのみ言ふなれば
いなや思はじ思ふかひなし

Roma-ji: Omoedomo omowazu to nomi iu nareba ina ya omowaji omou kai nashi
English Translation: Though I love you so,
you only say that I don't,
or so I hear it told—
no, then, I will love no more,
there's no point in loving you
Meaning: I love you, yet I hear you keep saying I do not. Very well, then, I will not love you. There is no use in loving.
Commentary: Book Nineteen Miscellaneous Forms 1039

Headnote: "Topic unknown"
Repeating "omou," to love, five times in one poem, the poet laments a love that does not get through. The stammering effect of the repetition gives it its haikai quality. It takes up "omou" from "omou chō" in the preceding poem and carries it on into the next.
The author is unknown and is recorded as "Anonymous."

First line, "Omoedomo," is concessive: though I love you.
Second line, "omowazu to nomi," means only that I do not love you.
Third line, "iu nareba," uses hearsay "nari": since I hear that you say so.
Fourth line, "ina ya omowaji," combines the negative interjection "ina ya" with negative intent "ji." The poem breaks here.
Fifth line, "omou kai nashi," means loving is of no use, closing on the fifth "omou."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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