Oshikaranu inochi ya sara ni nobinu ran owari no keburi shimuru nobe nite - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

惜しからぬ命やさらに延びぬらん
終はりの煙しむる野辺にて

Roma-ji: Oshikaranu inochi ya sara ni nobinu ran owari no keburi shimuru nobe nite
English Translation: This life I don't regret—
will it now, against my wish,
stretch out even more,
here upon the moor I've claimed
for the smoke of my last end?
Meaning: Will this life, for which I care so little, be stretched out even longer, here on the moor I have claimed as the place for the smoke of my last rites?
Commentary: Book Eight Miscellaneous Poems I 502

Headnote: "When I had prepared a burial place near Shinmyōji and it proved most delightful"
The poet wonders whether his life, which he does not cherish, will be prolonged further here on the moor he has claimed for the smoke of his last rites. The headnote shows he composed it after preparing his own burial place near Shinmyōji, which turned out to be a most delightful spot. With the paradox that the moor chosen for after death is so lovely that it may lengthen his life, he conveys light wit together with the resignation of age. Taking up the heart that does not cherish life in the preceding poem, 501, it is, like 499 in this book, one of the author's poems set among the poems on dew and life.
The author, written as Motosuke, is Kiyohara no Motosuke. A grandson of Kiyohara no Fukayabu, he was one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber who compiled the Gosenshū and worked on reading the Man'yōshū. The father of Sei Shōnagon, he is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "oshikaranu," means "not to be regretted," taking up the same feeling as "oshi to ni wa arazu" in the preceding poem.
Second line, "inochi ya sara ni," means "will my life even more," with "ya" a questioning particle.
Third line, "nobinu ran," means "be prolonged," resolving "ya" with the attributive "ran." The poem breaks here.
Fourth line, "owari no keburi," means "the smoke of my end," that of the cremation.
Final line, "shimuru nobe nite," means "on the moor I have claimed," with "shimuru" the attributive form of "shimu," to claim a place as one's own. Through inversion it gives afterward the place that would lengthen his life.
Author: Kiyohara no Motosuke
Source: Shui Wakashu
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