Yo no naka o itoigatera ni koshikadomo uki mi nagara no yama ni zo arikeru - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

世の中を厭ひがてらに来しかども
憂き身ながらの山にぞありける

Roma-ji: Yo no naka o itoigatera ni koshikadomo uki mi nagara no yama ni zo arikeru
English Translation: Weary of the world,
I came here half to flee it,
and yet, I find,
still this sorrowing self, I stand
on the Nagara mountain
Meaning: I came here partly to flee the world I had grown weary of, yet I find myself on Mount Nagara still the same sorrowful self.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems III 1233

Headnote: "Going to worship at Shiga at a time when something weighed on my mind."
The poet says that he came partly to escape the world, yet finds himself still a sorrowful self on Mount Nagara. Joining the place name Nagara with "nagara," just as it is, he laments that even coming to a mountain temple to flee the world does not change his unhappy lot.
According to the headnote, it was composed when he went to worship at the temple in Shiga at a time of trouble.
The poet is anonymous and the name is not known. The text gives the poet as "yomibito mo," but it is treated here as anonymous.

The first line, "Yo no naka o," means "the world."
The second line, "itoigatera ni," means "partly to flee it," with "gatera" meaning "while also."
The third line, "koshikadomo," means "I came, and yet," with "domo" concessive.
The fourth line, "uki mi nagara no," is a pivot word on "nagara," both "just as I am" and Mount Nagara in Ōmi.
The last line, "yama ni zo arikeru," means "on the mountain, I find," with "zo" closed by the attributive "keru." It ends in the same pattern as "mono ni zo arikeru" in 1197 and 1201 of this book.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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