Kage mireba oku e irikeru kimi ni yori nado ka namida no to e wa izuran - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

影見れば奥へ入りける君により
などか涙のとへは出づらん

Roma-ji: Kage mireba oku e irikeru kimi ni yori nado ka namida no to e wa izuran
English Translation: Seeing my figure
you slipped away within,
and because of you
why is it that my tears
come flowing out of doors
Meaning: Because of you, who slipped away inside when you saw me, why is it that my tears come flowing outward?
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems VI 1037

Headnote: "Sent when he stopped by and the woman fled inside."
The poet asks why, because of the woman who went deep inside on seeing him, his tears should come pouring out. Setting her flight inward against his tears flowing outward, he wraps the sorrow of rejection in wit.
According to the headnote, he stopped by a woman's house, and she fled inside, so he sent her this.
The poet is listed as anonymous, and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Kage mireba," means "when you saw my figure."
The second line, "oku e irikeru," means "you went deep inside," set against "to e wa izu," coming out, in the last line, contrasting in and out, inner and outer.
The third line, "kimi ni yori," means "because of you."
The fourth line, "nado ka namida no," means "why do my tears," with "nado ka" interrogative and closed by the attributive "ran" in the last line.
The last line, "to e wa izuran," means "come outward," with "to" meaning outside. It pairs with "oku e iri," going inside, in the second line.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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