Shiranami no uchikakuru su no kawakanu ni waga tamoto koso otorazarikere - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

白浪のうちかくるすの乾かぬに
我が袂こそ劣らざりけれ

Roma-ji: Shiranami no uchikakuru su no kawakanu ni waga tamoto koso otorazarikere
English Translation: The sandbar the white waves
keep on breaking over
never can grow dry,
and my sleeves, I find, are wet
no less than that sandbar is.
Meaning: The sandbar over which the white waves break is never dry, and my sleeves, wet with tears, are no less so.
Commentary: Book Seven Names of Things 377

Headnote: "Kurusuno (Kurusu Moor)"
The poet says that, just as the sandbar where the white waves break is never dry, his sleeves too are never free of tears. Overlaying the wave-wet sandbar with tear-soaked sleeves, the poem hides the name of Kurusu Moor given in the headnote in the run of sounds "uchikakuru su no" in the second line. The headnote names the thing hidden in the poem.
The author, written as Sukemi, is Fujiwara no Sukemi. A son of Fujiwara no Hirotsune, he was a mid-Heian poet known as Tōroku. He excelled at poems hiding the names of things, and his personal collection is the Tōrokushū.

First line, "shiranami no," means "the white waves."
Second line, "uchikakuru su no," means "of the sandbar the waves break over," hiding the name "Kurusuno." Following Inamino in the preceding poem, it hides a place name.
Third line, "kawakanu ni," means "is never dry." After the rain of the preceding poem, being wet is sung of.
Fourth line, "waga tamoto koso," means "my sleeves, too," emphasized by the particle "koso."
Final line, "otorazarikere," means "are no less so," with "koso" resolved by the perfective "kere." 390 of this book has the same final line.
Author: Fujiwara no Sukemi
Source: Shui Wakashu
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