Futakoe to kiku to wa nashi ni hototogisu yobukaku me o mo samashitsuru kana - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

二声と聞くとはなしに郭公
夜深く目をもさましつるかな

Roma-ji: Futakoe to kiku to wa nashi ni hototogisu yobukaku me o mo samashitsuru kana
English Translation: Though I did not hear
it sing a second time,
the cuckoo
has made me wake from my sleep
so deep in the night.
Meaning: Though I did not hear the cuckoo sing a second time, its single cry has woken me deep in the night.
Commentary: Book Two Summer Poems 105

Headnote: "For a folding screen in the same reign"
The poet did not hear the cuckoo sing twice, yet for just one cry she woke deep in the night and could not fall back asleep. The poem expresses a longing for the cuckoo's song so great that even a single cry captures the heart. According to the headnote, like the preceding poem, it accompanied a folding screen made in the reign of Emperor Murakami.
Ise was a woman poet of the early to mid-Heian period and a daughter of Fujiwara no Tsugukage. She served Onshi, consort of Emperor Uda, and became the mother of Nakatsukasa. She is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "futakoe to," means "twice in a row," drawing on the belief that the cuckoo could rarely be heard twice. It also answers to "hitokoe" in 97 and "ima hitokoe" in 106 of this book.
Second line, "kiku to wa nashi ni," means "though I did not hear it so."
Third line, "hototogisu," is the cuckoo that sang only once.
Fourth line, "yobukaku me o mo," is the same as the fourth line of 96 of this book. Whereas in 96 the poet woke in the wish to hear the first song, here she woke because she heard a single cry, reversing the situation under the same second half.
Final line, "samashitsuru kana," is the same final line as in 96, meaning "I have woken," with the exclamatory particle "kana."
Author: Ise
Source: Shui Wakashu
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