Koma ni koso makasetarikere ayanaku mo kokoro no kuru to omoikeru kana - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

駒にこそまかせたりけれあやなくも
心の来ると思ひけるかな

Roma-ji: Koma ni koso makasetarikere ayanaku mo kokoro no kuru to omoikeru kana
English Translation: So it was the horse
you trusted to bring you here—
how foolish of me,
thinking all along that it
was your heart that had come
Meaning: So it was the horse you trusted to bring you. How foolish of me to think that it was your heart that had come.
Commentary: Book Thirteen Love Poems V 979

Headnote: "Reply."
The woman says that it was the horse he trusted, and she had foolishly thought it was his heart that had come. Turning his embarrassed excuse against him, she pretends to sulk: she had rejoiced that he remembered her and came, but it was only the horse's doing.
It is the reply to the preceding poem, 978. Taking up "koma ni makasete" in her first and second lines, she seizes on his words and retorts that it was the horse that came, not his heart.
The poet is listed as anonymous, and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Koma ni koso," means "to the horse, indeed," taking up "koma" in the fourth line of the preceding poem. "Koso" is an emphatic binding particle.
The second line, "makasetarikere," means "you trusted," closing the "koso" of the first line with the realis "kere." It takes up "makasete" from the preceding poem. The poem pauses here.
The third line, "ayanaku mo," means "without reason, foolishly."
The fourth line, "kokoro no kuru to," means "that your heart had come," set against the horse of the second line.
The last line, "omoikeru kana," means "so I had thought," a sigh at realizing her mistake.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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