Kokoro naki mi wa kusaki ni mo aranaku ni aki kuru kaze ni utagawaruramu - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

心なき身は草木にもあらなくに
あき来る風に疑はるらむ

Roma-ji: Kokoro naki mi wa kusaki ni mo aranaku ni aki kuru kaze ni utagawaruramu
English Translation: I am not a thing
without a heart, like grasses
or the trees—so why
am I doubted, as if blown
by autumn's wind of weariness
Meaning: I am no heartless thing like grass or trees—why then am I suspected, as if the wind that brings autumn and weariness had blown through me?
Commentary: Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Poems IV 1274

Headnote: "Reply."
The poet asks why, though she is no heartless grass or tree, she is doubted at the coming of the autumn wind. Accused of a change of heart in the preceding poem, she retorts, joining "aki," autumn, with "aki," weariness, that she is no plant scattered by the autumn wind.
It is Ise's reply to the preceding poem by the posthumous Chancellor Fujiwara no Tokihira.
The poet, Ise, was a daughter of Fujiwara no Tsugukage, Governor of Ise, and served Fujiwara no Onshi, consort of Emperor Uda. She received the emperor's favor and later bore Nakatsukasa to Prince Atsuyoshi. One of the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals, she is represented in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu by "Naniwagata mijikaki ashi no fushi no ma mo."

The first line, "Kokoro naki," means "without a heart."
The second line, "mi wa kusaki ni mo," means "I am not grass or trees."
The third line, "aranaku ni," means "and yet," with "naku ni" concessive.
The fourth line, "aki kuru kaze ni," is a pivot word on "aki," autumn and weariness. It takes up "akikaze" in the fourth line of the preceding poem.
The last line, "utagawaruramu," means "why am I doubted," with "ru" passive and "ramu" a conjecture about the cause.
Author: Ise
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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