Kurenai ni sode o nomi koso sometekere kimi o uramuru namida kakarite - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

紅に袖をのみこそ染めてけれ
君を恨むる涙かかりて

Roma-ji: Kurenai ni sode o nomi koso sometekere kimi o uramuru namida kakarite
English Translation: Crimson is the hue
that only my sleeves have taken,
dyed through and through,
by the tears that fall on them
as I grieve over you
Meaning: Only my sleeves have been dyed crimson, soaked by the tears I shed in bitterness toward you.
Commentary: Book Twelve Love Poems IV 810

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet says that only her sleeves have been dyed crimson, wetted by the tears she sheds in reproach of him. Singing of crimson tears shed at the height of grief, she shows how deep her resentment of his coldness runs.
Here three poems in a row, this one, 811, and 812, open with "kurenai ni," forming a sequence on crimson tears.
The poet is listed as anonymous, and the composer's name has not come down to us. The text gives the poet as "yomibito mo," indicating that the poem is anonymous.

The first line, "Kurenai ni," means "in crimson," the color of the tears of blood shed at the extremity of grief. The next two poems, 811 and 812, share this opening.
The second line, "sode o nomi koso," means "only my sleeves," with "koso" an emphatic binding particle.
The third line, "sometekere," means "have been dyed," closing with the perfective "kere" in answer to "koso" in the second line, and the poem pauses here.
The fourth line, "kimi o uramuru," means "resenting you."
The last line, "namida kakarite," means "as my tears fall on them," inverted with the first three lines so that the cause of the dyed sleeves is given afterward.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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