Harugasumi hakanaku tachite wakaru tomo kaze yori hoka ni tare ka tou beki - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

春霞はかなくたちて別るとも
風より外に誰か訪ふべき

Roma-ji: Harugasumi hakanaku tachite wakaru tomo kaze yori hoka ni tare ka tou beki
English Translation: Though like spring haze
you rise and drift away
and we must part,
who but the wind
will ever come to call
Meaning: Though we part as fleetingly as spring haze rises and drifts away, who but the wind will ever come to call on me?
Commentary: Book Nineteen Parting Poems 1342

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet says that even if they part as fleetingly as the spring haze rises, who but the wind would come to call. Parting lightly in the season of spring haze, the poet laments that no one but the wind will visit once they are apart.
The next poem is Ise's reply, and the two form an exchange.
The poet is anonymous and the name is not known.

The first line, "Harugasumi," is the spring haze, leading to "tachi" in the second line.
The second line, "hakanaku tachite," is a pivot word on "tachi," both haze rising and setting out on a journey.
The third line, "wakaru tomo," means "even if we part," with "tomo" a concessive supposition.
The fourth line, "kaze yori hoka ni," means "but for the wind," the wind being what disperses the haze.
The last line, "tare ka tou beki," means "who would come to call," with the rhetorical binding particle "ka" closed by the attributive "beki." It is taken up by "me ni mienu kaze ni" in the first line of the next poem.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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