Omoiki ya aiminu hodo no toshitsuki o kazou bakari ni naran mono to wa - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

思ひきやあひ見ぬほどの年月を
数ふばかりにならんものとは

Roma-ji: Omoiki ya aiminu hodo no toshitsuki o kazou bakari ni naran mono to wa
English Translation: Did I ever dream
that the months and the long years
we have spent apart
would grow so many that now
I would be counting them?
Meaning: Did I ever imagine that the years we have gone without seeing each other would grow so many that I would be counting them?
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 907

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The poem says: did I ever think that the years we have gone without meeting would grow so many that I would be counting them? It strikes hard, with the opening "omoiki ya," at the surprise and grief that the time apart has stretched, before one knew it, into years.
From 906 to 908 in this book, three poems by Ise follow in a row, all singing of a heart that thinks from afar of someone it cannot meet.
The author, "Ise," was a woman poet of the early to mid-Heian period and the daughter of Fujiwara no Tsugukage. She served Onshi, empress of Emperor Uda, and later received the emperor's favor. She is one of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "omoiki ya," means "did I ever think? I never did," with "ki" the past auxiliary and "ya" rhetorical. The poem breaks here.
Second line, "aiminu hodo no," means "of the time we have not met."
Third line, "toshitsuki o," means "the months and years." It shares the years with the first line of the preceding poem, 906, "toshitsuki no."
Fourth line, "kazou bakari ni," means "so many that I count them."
Final line, "naran mono to wa," means "that it would come to this," inverted with "omoiki ya" in the first line.
Author: Ise
Source: Shui Wakashu
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