Onajiku wa kimi to narabi no ike ni koso mi o nagetsu tomo hito ni kikaseme - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

同じくは君とならびの池にこそ
身を投げつとも人に聞かせめ

Roma-ji: Onajiku wa kimi to narabi no ike ni koso mi o nagetsu tomo hito ni kikaseme
English Translation: If it must be so,
then side by side with you
in Narabi Pond
let them hear that I have cast
my body into its depths
Meaning: If I must die anyway, then let people hear that I threw myself into Narabi Pond—side by side with you.
Commentary: Book Twelve Love Poems IV 855

Headnote: "When he told a woman he had not yet met that he would surely die, and she replied, 'Then hurry up and die,' he sent this again."
The poet says that if it must be so, he will let people hear that he threw himself into Narabi Pond side by side with her. To a woman who brushed him off by telling him to die quickly, he retorts that they should drown themselves together, playing on the pond's name.
According to the headnote, he told a woman he had not yet met that he would die of longing, and she answered that he should die quickly, so he sent another poem.
The poet is listed as anonymous, and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Onajiku wa," means "if it is all the same."
The second line, "kimi to narabi no," means "side by side with you," with "narabi" joining "side by side" and the name of the pond.
The third line, "ike ni koso," means "into the pond, indeed," with "koso" an emphatic binding particle.
The fourth line, "mi o nagetsu tomo," means "that I threw myself," with "tsu" a perfective auxiliary.
The last line, "hito ni kikaseme," means "I will let people hear," closing with the perfective "me" in answer to "koso" in the third line.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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