Ikabakari omou ran to ka omou ran oite wakaruru tōki wakare o - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

いかばかり思ふらんとか思ふらん
老いて別るる遠き別れを

Roma-ji: Ikabakari omou ran to ka omou ran oite wakaruru tōki wakare o
English Translation: How deeply, do you
think, I must be feeling this—
do you think of it?
This far parting that I make,
grown old, as I go away.
Meaning: Do you think of how deeply I must be feeling it—this distant parting, as I go away in my old age?
Commentary: Book Six Parting Poems 333

Headnote: "When Kiyohara no Motosuke went down as Governor of Higo and Minamoto no Mitsunaka held a farewell for him, taking up the earthen wine cup"
The poet asks whether his friend imagines how sad he feels at this parting, as he goes down to distant Higo in his old age. Repeating "omou ran," he conveys the forlornness of departing for a far province at an age when there is little hope of meeting again. According to the headnote, it was composed when Motosuke went down as Governor of Higo and Minamoto no Mitsunaka held a farewell, as he took up the cup. Motosuke is said to have become Governor of Higo at the age of seventy-nine.
The author, written as Motosuke, is Kiyohara no Motosuke. A grandson of Kiyohara no Fukayabu, he took part in compiling the Gosenshū and in reading the Man'yōshū as one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber. He was the father of Sei Shōnagon and is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "ikabakari," means "how much."
Second line, "omou ran to ka," means "that I must be feeling," with "ka" a questioning particle.
Third line, "omou ran," means "do you think," with "ka" resolved by the attributive "ran." The second and third lines repeat "omou ran," each guessing at the other's heart. The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "oite wakaruru," means "parting in old age." The next poem, 334, answers this "old age" with "a long road ahead."
Final line, "tōki wakare o," means "this distant parting," giving by inversion what is being thought of. The distance of age and the distance of the road are overlaid.
Author: Kiyohara no Motosuke
Source: Shui Wakashu
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