Kono tabi mo ware o wasurenu mono naraba uchimimu tabi ni omoiidenan - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

このたびも我を忘れぬものならば
うち見むたびに思ひ出でなん

Roma-ji: Kono tabi mo ware o wasurenu mono naraba uchimimu tabi ni omoiidenan
English Translation: If on this journey
too you will not forget me,
each time that you strike
this flint and glance upon it,
I would have you think of me
Meaning: If on this journey too you will not forget me, then each time you strike this flint and glance at it, I would have you remember me.
Commentary: Book Nineteen Parting Poems 1309

Headnote: "Sent with a fire striker to a friend going to a distant province."
The poet asks that if the friend will not forget even on this journey, the friend remember each time the flint is struck and seen. Giving a fire striker to a friend leaving for a far province, the poet hopes to be remembered whenever a fire is struck on the road.
According to the headnote, it was sent with a fire striker to a friend going down to a distant province. Poem 1304 of this book is also a poem sent with a fire striker to someone going to Michinoku, and the two poems on the same gift answer one another.
The poet is anonymous and the name is not known.

The first line, "Kono tabi mo," is a pivot word on "tabi," both "time" and "journey": this time, on this journey too.
The second line, "ware o wasurenu," means "will not forget me."
The third line, "mono naraba," means "if it is so," with "ba" a supposition.
The fourth line, "uchimimu tabi ni," is a pivot word on "uchi," both striking the flint and the prefix meaning to glance. "Tabi" repeats the word of the first line.
The last line, "omoiidenan," means "please remember me," with "nan" a particle of request.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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