Wasurarete omou nageki no shigeru o ya mi o Hazukashi no mori to iuran - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

忘られて思ふなげきの茂るをや
身をはづかしの森といふらん

Roma-ji: Wasurarete omou nageki no shigeru o ya mi o Hazukashi no mori to iuran
English Translation: Forgotten by you,
my sorrows grow like timber,
thick and overgrown—
is this why they call it
the Wood of Hazukashi
Meaning: Forgotten, my grief has grown thick like a stand of timber—is that why it is called the Forest of Hazukashi, the forest of my shame?
Commentary: Book Ten Love Poems II 664

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet wonders whether the thickly growing grief of one who is forgotten is what is called the Forest of Hazukashi, of shame. She voices the grief and shame of being forgotten by piling up pivot words drawn from place names.
Following the exchange before it, it sings of the grief of the one who has been forgotten.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Wasurarete," means "forgotten by him."
In the second line, "nageki" is a pivot word joining "nageki," grief, and "nagegi," firewood, with "ki," wood, an associated word with "shigeru" in the third line and "mori" in the last line.
The third line, "shigeru o ya," means "its thick growth," with "ya" an interrogative particle.
In the fourth line, "Hazukashi" is a pivot word joining "hazukashi," ashamed, and Hazukashi, a poetic place in Yamashiro.
The last line, "mori to iuran," means "do they call it the forest?" closing with the attributive "ran" in answer to "ya" in the third line, a kakarimusubi pattern.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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