Yo no naka wa ika ni kurushi to omouramu kokora no hito ni uramirarureba - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

世の中はいかに苦しと思ふらむ
ここらの人に恨みらるれば

Roma-ji: Yo no naka wa ika ni kurushi to omouramu kokora no hito ni uramirarureba
English Translation: How painful it must,
I wonder, seem to the world
to be what it is—
resented as it has been
by so many, many people
Meaning: How hard it must be for the world itself, I wonder, being resented by so very many people.
Commentary: Book Nineteen Miscellaneous Forms 1062

Headnote: "Topic unknown"
Reversing the common complaint that the world is cruel, the poet sympathizes with the world, which must suffer from being so resented. Taking up "yo no naka no uki" from the preceding poem, the arrangement flips the viewpoint from those who resent to what is resented. Personifying the world gives the poem its haikai quality.
The author is Ariwara no Motokata. The son of Ariwara no Muneyana, he was a grandson of Ariwara no Narihira.

First line, "Yo no naka wa," echoes "Yo no naka no" at the start of the preceding poem and personifies the world.
Second line, "ika ni kurushi to," means how painful.
Third line, "omouramu," uses present conjectural "ramu": it must be thinking. The poem breaks here.
Fourth line, "kokora no hito ni," uses "kokora," many: by so many people.
Fifth line, "uramirarureba," uses the passive "rarure," giving the reason in inverted order: since it is resented.
Author: Ariwara no Motokata
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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