Wakaruru o oshi to zo omou tsurugiba no mi o yori kudaku kokochi nomi shite - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

別るるををしとぞ思ふ剣羽の
身をより砕く心地のみして

Roma-ji: Wakaruru o oshi to zo omou tsurugiba no mi o yori kudaku kokochi nomi shite
English Translation: How I grieve to part,
as the mandarin drake's wings
are sharp as a sword,
I feel only as though
my body were wrenched and crushed.
Meaning: I grieve at our parting, feeling only as if my body were twisted and shattered, like the sword-shaped feathers of the mandarin drake.
Commentary: Book Six Parting Poems 325

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The poet grieves at the parting, feeling only as though the body were being shattered like the sword feathers of the mandarin duck. Laying on "oshi," regret, the old name "oshi" for the mandarin duck to lead to its sword feathers, the poem conveys the pain of parting as being cut and crushed by blade-like plumes.

First line, "wakaruru o," means "our parting."
Second line, "oshi to zo omou," plays on "oshi" as regret and as the old name for the mandarin duck, with "zo" resolved by the attributive "omou." The poem pauses here.
Third line, "tsurugiba no," refers to the sword-like feathers standing up on the wings of the male mandarin duck, led into through the "oshi" of the second line.
Fourth line, "mi o yori kudaku," is understood to mean "twisting and crushing the body," the pain of being cut and shattered by the sharpness of the sword feathers.
Final line, "kokochi nomi shite," means "feeling only so," presenting by inversion the state of the grieving heart afterward. After the poems of tears and sleeves, parting is here sung of as a pain that shatters the body.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shui Wakashu
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