数知らぬ思ひは君にあるものを
置き所なき心地こそすれ
置き所なき心地こそすれ
- Roma-ji
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Kazu shiranu omoi wa kimi ni aru mono o okidokoro naki kokochi koso sure
- English Translation
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These countless longings
all belong to you alone,
and yet I feel
as though there were no place
where I might set them down
- Meaning
- All my countless longings are given to you, and yet I feel as though there were nowhere I could set them down.
- Commentary
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Book Fourteen Love Poems VI 1052
Headnote: "Composed while he was together with a woman."
The poet says that his countless longings are all given to her, yet he feels he has no place to set them down. Even in her company, he tells of the restlessness of not knowing where to put his overflowing feelings.
According to the headnote, he composed it while he was together with a woman, and her reply is placed in the next poem, 1053.
The poet is listed as anonymous, and the composer's name has not come down to us.
The first line, "Kazu shiranu," means "countless."
The second line, "omoi wa kimi ni," means "my longings, to you." "Ware ni ikura mo" in the fourth line of the next poem answers it.
The third line, "aru mono o," means "they are, and yet," with "mono o" an adversative conjunctive particle.
The fourth line, "okidokoro naki," means "with no place to set them," taken up by "okidokoro naki omoi" in the first and second lines of the next poem.
The last line, "kokochi koso sure," means "so I feel," with "koso" an emphatic binding particle closed by the perfective "sure."
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Gosen Wakashu
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Uki koto no shigeki yado ni wa wasuregusa uete dani mishi aki zo wabishiki
- Next Poem
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Okidokoro naki omoi to shi kikitsureba ware ni ikura mo araji to zo omou