悲しきも憂きも知りにしひとつ名を
誰を分くとか思ひ捨つべき
誰を分くとか思ひ捨つべき
- Roma-ji
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Kanashiki mo uki mo shirinishi hitotsu na o tare o waku to ka omoisutsubeki
- English Translation
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Sorrow we have known,
and bitterness we have known,
we who share one name—
which of us would I set apart,
and cast from my thoughts
- Meaning
- We who have known both sorrow and bitterness under the same name—whom would I set apart and cast from my thoughts?
- Commentary
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Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems III 1204
Headnote: "Reply."
The poet asks whom she would set apart and cast from her thoughts, when they share one name and have known sorrow and bitterness alike. Answering Taifu's fears in the preceding poem, she consoles her that those who served the same master and shared its grief would never abandon one another.
It seems to be the Gosechi Master's reply to Taifu's preceding poem.
The poet is anonymous and the name is not known.
The first line, "Kanashiki mo," means "sorrow too," taking up "kanashiki mono o" in the second line of the preceding poem.
The second line, "uki mo shirinishi," means "and bitterness we have known," taking up "ukeredomo" in the first line of the preceding poem.
The third line, "hitotsu na o," means "one name," those called by the same name as servants of the same master.
The fourth line, "tare o waku to ka," means "whom would I set apart," with "ka" a rhetorical binding particle.
The last line, "omoisutsubeki," means "cast from my thoughts? Never," closing the "ka" with the attributive "beki." It answers "omoisutsuran" in the last line of the preceding poem.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Gosen Wakashu
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