Tsu no kuni no Ikuta no ike no ikutabi ka tsuraki kokoro o ware ni misuran - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

津の国の生田の池のいくたびか
つらき心を我に見すらん

Roma-ji: Tsu no kuni no Ikuta no ike no ikutabi ka tsuraki kokoro o ware ni misuran
English Translation: In the land of Tsu,
like the name of Ikuta's pond,
how many times now,
how often will you show to me
the coldness of your heart?
Meaning: Like the name of Ikuta Pond in the land of Tsu, how many times will you show me your cold heart?
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 884

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
Drawing "ikutabi," how many times, from the name of Ikuta Pond in the land of Tsu, the poem laments: how many times will that person show me a cold heart? It entrusts to the sound of a place-name a heart wounded by repeated coldness.
Following the preceding poem, it is the second in the sequence beginning "Tsu no kuni no."

First line, "Tsu no kuni no," means "of the land of Tsu," the same opening as the preceding poem, 883.
Second line, "Ikuta no ike no," means "of the pond at Ikuta" in Settsu. The first two lines form a preface leading by sound to "ikutabi."
Third line, "ikutabi ka," means "how many times," with "ka" an interrogative binding particle.
Fourth line, "tsuraki kokoro o," means "a cold heart." It shares the grief at another's coldness with "hito ya tsuraki" in 868 of this book.
Final line, "ware ni misuran," means "will you show to me," concluding in the attributive of the present conjectural "ran" in answer to "ka."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shui Wakashu
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