Tsurashi to mo ikaga uramin hototogisu waga yado chikaku naku koe wa sede - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

つらしともいかが恨みん郭公
わが宿近く鳴く声はせで

Roma-ji: Tsurashi to mo ikaga uramin hototogisu waga yado chikaku naku koe wa sede
English Translation: How could you blame me,
calling me heartless?
O cuckoo,
you never let your voice be heard
singing near my house
Meaning: How can you resent me and call me cruel? Cuckoo, you never once let your voice be heard singing near my house.
Commentary: Book Nine Love Poems I 547

Headnote: "The man had many places he visited here and there and did not always call on her, and when she too gained a name for being amorous, he reproached her; this was her reply."
The poet asks how he can call her cruel and resent her, when he, like a cuckoo, never sings near her house. Likening the man who visits many places to a cuckoo, she turns his reproach back on him.
According to the headnote, the man had many places he visited and did not always call on her, and when a rumor arose that she too was amorous, he reproached her; this was her reply. The next poem is the man's reply, and the two form a pair of exchanged poems.
The poet is given as "the daughter of Minamoto no Tanomu." Her name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Tsurashi to mo," means "as heartless."
The second line, "ikaga uramin," means "how can you resent me?", a rhetorical question. The poem pauses here.
The third line, "hototogisu," is the cuckoo, a figure for the man. The third line of the next poem also places "hototogisu."
The fourth line, "waga yado chikaku," means "near my house."
In the last line, "de" is a negative conjunctive particle: "without letting your voice be heard." It refers to the man's failure to visit.
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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