Yoso ni oru sode dani hichishi fujigoromo namida ni hana mo miezu zo aramashi - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

よそに居る袖だにひちし藤衣
涙に花も見えずぞあらまし

Roma-ji: Yoso ni oru sode dani hichishi fujigoromo namida ni hana mo miezu zo aramashi
English Translation: Even my own sleeves,
far away, were soaked with tears—
your wisteria robe,
wet with weeping, would have shown
not a trace of flowers
Meaning: If even my sleeves, far away, were soaked with tears, then on your wisteria robe of mourning no flowers would have shown through the tears.
Commentary: Book Twenty Congratulatory Poems 1418

Headnote: "Reply."
The poet says that since even sleeves far away were soaked, the wisteria robe would have shown no flowers through the tears. Taking up the wisteria of the preceding poem, the poet replies that if even sleeves far off grew wet, the mourning robe of the bereaved would be so drenched that no flower color could be seen.
It is the reply to the preceding poem.
The poet is anonymous and the name is not known.

The first line, "Yoso ni oru," means "being far away," the poet who did not go to the memorial.
The second line, "sode dani hichishi," means "even my sleeves were soaked," with "dani" naming a lesser case to imply a greater.
The third line, "fujigoromo," is the wisteria robe of mourning, taking up "wisteria blossoms" in the preceding poem's fourth line.
The fourth line, "namida ni hana mo," means "through tears, the flowers too."
The last line, "miezu zo aramashi," means "would not have been seen," answering "miemashi" in the preceding poem's last line and closing the "zo" with the attributive "mashi."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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