Isa ya mada koi chō koto mo shiranaku ni ko ya so naruran i koso nerarene - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

いさやまだ恋てふことも知らなくに
こやそなるらんいこそ寝られね

Roma-ji: Isa ya mada koi chō koto mo shiranaku ni ko ya so naruran i koso nerarene
English Translation: Well, I hardly know—
for I still have no knowledge
of the thing called love;
is this, then, what it must be?
I cannot fall asleep.
Meaning: I hardly know—I still don't know what love is, and yet could this be it? I cannot sleep at all.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 896

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The poem sings of a heart bewildered by first love: I do not yet know what love is, so is this it, this feeling that keeps me from sleep? Striking is the freshness of someone who does not know love noticing a change in themselves, sleeplessness, and asking whether this is love.

First line, "isa ya mada," means "well, I wonder—not yet," with "isa ya" expressing hesitation to answer.
Second line, "koi chō koto mo," means "even the thing called love," with "chō" a contraction of "to iu."
Third line, "shiranaku ni," means "though I do not know," with "naku" a nominalized form of the negative "zu" and "ni" adversative.
Fourth line, "ko ya so naruran," means "is this that, I wonder," with "ko" meaning this, "ya" an interrogative binding particle, and "so" meaning that. It concludes in the attributive of the present conjectural "ran." The poem breaks here.
Final line, "i koso nerarene," means "I cannot sleep," with "i" a noun meaning sleep. It concludes in "ne," the realis of the negative "zu," in answer to the binding particle "koso." With "utatane" in the next poem, 897, poems of sleep continue.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shui Wakashu
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