Tsuraki o mo uki o mo yoso ni mishikadomo waga mi ni chikaki yo ni koso arikere - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

つらきをも憂きをもよそに見しかども
我が身に近き世にこそありけれ

Roma-ji: Tsuraki o mo uki o mo yoso ni mishikadomo waga mi ni chikaki yo ni koso arikere
English Translation: Coldness and grief
I had looked upon
as others' affairs,
but now I see they were
of a world close to me
Meaning: I used to look on coldness and sorrow as other people's affairs, but they belonged to a world close to my own life after all.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems III 749

Headnote: "When the man's heart seemed gradually to be drifting away."
The poet says she had viewed coldness and sorrow as others' concerns, but they belong to a world close to her own. She voices her surprise and grief that the pains of love she thought were others' have now fallen upon her.
According to the headnote, the poem was composed as the man's heart seemed to be gradually drifting away.
The poet, Tosa, was a woman known by that name, thought to be a lady-in-waiting's sobriquet, and little is known of her life.

The first line, "Tsuraki o mo," means "coldness, too."
The second line, "uki o mo yoso ni," means "and sorrow, as others' affairs."
The third line, "mishikadomo," means "though I looked on them so."
The fourth line, "waga mi ni chikaki," means "close to myself," set against "yoso," others' affairs, in the second line.
The last line, "yo ni koso arikere," means "was a world," "yo" meaning the relationship between lovers. It closes with the perfective "kere" in answer to "koso," a kakarimusubi pattern.
Author: Tosa
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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