宿かへて待つにも見えずなりぬれば
つらき所の多くもあるかな
つらき所の多くもあるかな
- Roma-ji
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Yado kaete matsu ni mo miezu narinureba tsuraki tokoro no ōku mo aru kana
- English Translation
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I changed my lodging,
yet still you do not appear
as I wait for you—
how very many there are
of these places hard to bear
- Meaning
- I moved my lodging and waited, yet you no longer come. How many places there must be that are hard for you to bear.
- Commentary
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Book Eleven Love Poems III 705
Headnote: "A man whose heart had changed told a woman living in temporary lodgings that the place was so inconvenient he could not call, though he still cared for her. She moved and waited, but he did not come, so the woman wrote:"
The poet says that though she moved and waited, he stopped appearing, so there must be many places he finds hard to bear. She answers his excuse of blaming the place with a sharp touch of irony.
According to the headnote, a man who had grown cold told the woman in temporary lodgings that the place was inconvenient, and so he could not visit though he still had feelings for her. She moved and waited for him, but he did not show himself, and she composed this poem.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us. According to the headnote, it is the woman's poem.
The first line, "Yado kaete," means "having changed my lodging."
The second line, "matsu ni mo miezu," means "you do not appear even as I wait."
The third line, "narinureba," means "since it has come to this."
The fourth line, "tsuraki tokoro no," means "places hard to bear." Taking up his words about an "inconvenient place," she mocks him: if he does not come wherever she moves, every place must be hard for him.
The last line, "ōku mo aru kana," means "how many there are," with "kana" an exclamatory particle.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Gosen Wakashu
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