Shinonome ni akade wakareshi tamoto o zo tsuyu ya wakeshi to hito wa togamuru - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

しののめに飽かで別れし袂をぞ
露や分けしと人はとがむる

Roma-ji: Shinonome ni akade wakareshi tamoto o zo tsuyu ya wakeshi to hito wa togamuru
English Translation: At break of day
we parted, longing still—
and of my sleeve
people ask, suspicious,
"Did you push through the dew?"
Meaning: My sleeve, wet from our reluctant parting at daybreak, draws suspicious looks from others, who ask whether I have come through dewy grass.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems III 721

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet says that others, seeing the sleeve from a reluctant parting at daybreak, ask suspiciously whether he has come through dew. Having his tear-wet sleeve taken for one wet with dew, he sings of the tears of love that cannot be hidden.
Following the preceding poem, 720, it is another poem of parting at dawn.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Shinonome ni," means "at daybreak." Following "akatsuki" in 719 and "kesa" in the preceding poem, it places another word for dawn.
The second line, "akade wakareshi," means "parted with longing unspent," the same mood as "akanu wakare ya" in the fourth line of 719 in this book.
The third line, "tamoto o zo," means "my sleeve," with "zo" an emphatic particle.
The fourth line, "tsuyu ya wakeshi to," means "did you push through the dew," taking up dew as "asatsuyu no" does in the third line of the preceding poem.
The last line, "hito wa togamuru," means "others question," closing with the attributive "togamuru" in answer to "zo" in the third line, a kakarimusubi pattern.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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