Tori mo aezu tachisawagareshi adanami ni ayanaku nani ni sode no nureken - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

取りもあへず立ち騒がれしあだ浪に
あやなく何に袖の濡れけん

Roma-ji: Tori mo aezu tachisawagareshi adanami ni ayanaku nani ni sode no nureken
English Translation: Without a moment's pause
you rose amid the clamor
of fickle waves—
why, then, for no good reason,
should your sleeves be soaked
Meaning: Over fickle waves that rose up in a clamor and sent you off in such a hurry, why, for no reason at all, should your sleeves have been soaked?
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems II 1159

Headnote: "Reply."
The poet asks why, over fickle waves that rose in a clamor and drove him off in haste, his sleeves should have got wet for no reason. Taking up the waves and sleeves of the preceding poem, she brushes off the tears of the man who hurried away as the work of idle waves and retorts by asking whether they were real.
It is the woman's reply to the man's poem before it.
The poet is listed as anonymous, and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Tori mo aezu," means "without a moment's pause," with an extra syllable, describing the man's hurried departure.
The second line, "tachisawagareshi," means "stirred up in a clamor," taking up "uchisawagarete" in the second line of the preceding poem. The first line of 1148 in this book also has "tachisawagu."
The third line, "adanami ni," means "by idle waves," with "ada" suggesting fickleness and hinting at the man's heart.
The fourth line, "ayanaku nani ni," means "for no reason, why."
The last line, "sode no nureken," means "should your sleeves have got wet," with "ken" conjecture about a past cause. It answers "sode wa nurenishi" in the last line of the preceding poem.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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