Komorinu no shita yu kōreba sube o nami imo ga na noritsu imu beki mono o

隠り沼の下ゆ恋ふればすべをなみ
妹が名告りつ忌むべきものを

Roma-ji: Komorinu no shita yu kōreba sube o nami imo ga na noritsu imu beki mono o
English Translation: Like a hidden marsh,
I have loved beneath the surface,
and helpless at last
I have spoken my love's name,
though it is a thing to shun
Meaning: Like a hidden marsh, I loved in secret beneath the surface, until, helpless, I spoke my beloved's name aloud, though it is a thing that should be shunned.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems Ancient and Modern I 2441

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing Feelings through Things"
Having loved in secret deep within, like a marsh hidden from view, the speaker could no longer contain his feelings and spoke aloud his beloved's name, which ought not to be uttered, and now regrets it. Against the ancient custom of shunning the revealing of a lover's name, the poem expresses the pain of a love that cannot be held back.
This book's poem 2432 told of damming up the heart, shunning to put love into words. This poem, by contrast, tells of failing to hold back and speaking the beloved's name, so that two aspects of a hidden love are sung in turn.
The author is unknown; according to the left note, the poem comes from the Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection. That collection is thought to contain both Hitomaro's own poems and poems by others that he recorded. Kakinomoto no Hitomaro was a court poet active in the reigns of Empress Jito and Emperor Monmu, and is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "komorinu no": a pillow word attached to "beneath." A marsh covered with grasses, from which no water flows out, cannot be seen from above, and so leads to "beneath."
Second line, "shita yu kōreba": "because I have loved in secret within." "Shita" is the heart's interior, "yu" marks the course or starting point, and "kōreba" is a perfective form with "ba" expressing a settled condition.
Third line, "sube o nami": "since there was no help for it." It is the mi construction formed from the noun "sube," "o," and the stem of the adjective "nashi," expressing reason.
Fourth line, "imo ga na noritsu": "I have spoken my beloved's name." Closed firmly with the perfective auxiliary "tsu," the poem breaks after this fourth line.
Fifth line, "imu beki mono o": "though it should be shunned." The conjunctive "mono o" expresses both concession and lament, closing with remorse for having done what should not be done.
Author: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
Source: Manyoshu
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