Tokonatsu ni omoisomete wa hito shirenu kokoro no hodo wa iro ni mienan - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

常夏に思ひそめては人知れぬ
心のほどは色に見えなん

Roma-ji: Tokonatsu ni omoisomete wa hito shirenu kokoro no hodo wa iro ni mienan
English Translation: Like the everlasting pink,
since I first began, and dyed,
my love, unknown to all,
the depth of this heart of mine
surely in its hue will show
Meaning: Since I first began to love you, as constant as the everlasting pink, and my heart was dyed with it, surely the depth of my secret heart will show in its color.
Commentary: Book Four Summer Poems 201

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
Having begun to love as constantly as the everlasting pink, the poet says the depth of his secret heart will surely show in its color. In the color of the pink he entrusts the depth of the love he has long kept hidden.
The next poem is a reply, and the two form an exchange.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us. The text gives the author as "yomibito mo," but it is treated here as anonymous.

The first line, "Tokonatsu ni," puts into tokonatsu, another name for the pink, the sense of "ever unchanging." Following the preceding poem, 200, it again sings of the tokonatsu.
In the second line, "some" is a pivot word joining "some," to begin, and "some," to dye, and is a related word to "iro," color, in the last line.
The third line, "hito shirenu," means "unknown to others," expressing a secret love like "hito shirezu" in 198 of this book.
The fourth line, "kokoro no hodo wa," means "the depth of my heart."
The last line, "iro ni mienan," means "will surely show in its color," with "na" as emphatic and "n" as conjecture. The next poem, 202, takes up this "iro" with "iro to ieba."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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