つれなきを思ひしのぶのさねかづら
果てはくるをも厭ふなりけり
果てはくるをも厭ふなりけり
- Roma-ji
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Tsurenaki o omoishinobu no sanekazura hate wa kuru o mo itou narikeri
- English Translation
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Enduring her coldness,
I kept on loving, like the vine
that trails and clings,
yet in the end, I find,
she hates even my coming
- Meaning
- I bore her coldness and kept loving her, but in the end, as one draws in a trailing vine, she has come to hate even my coming to her.
- Commentary
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Book Eleven Love Poems III 787
Headnote: "When he went to a woman's house and she only told him to go home quickly."
The poet says that though he loved her while enduring her coldness, in the end she hates even his coming. He laments, in words associated with the sanekazura vine, that after visiting her despite her coldness, he is told to leave at once.
According to the headnote, he went to the woman's house and she did nothing but tell him to go home quickly. Like 700, the opening poem of this book, it uses "sanekazura" and "kuru"; where the opening poem wished for a way to come unseen, here even his coming is hated.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us.
The first line, "Tsurenaki o," means "her coldness."
The second line, "omoishinobu no," means "enduring and loving still," where "shinobu," to endure, echoes the fern shinobugusa and leads into "sanekazura" in the third line.
The third line, "sanekazura," is a trailing vine whose drawing in makes it a word associated with "kuru" in the last line. It is the same word as in the third line of 700, the opening poem.
In the fourth line, "hate wa kuru o mo," "kuru" is a pivot word meaning both a person's "coming" and "drawing in" a vine.
The last line, "itou narikeri," means "she hates it, I see," with "narikeri" expressing a sigh of realization.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Gosen Wakashu
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