Yo no naka no uki mo tsuraki mo shinobureba omoishirazu to hito ya miruran - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

世の中の憂きもつらきも忍ぶれば
思ひ知らずと人や見るらん

Roma-ji: Yo no naka no uki mo tsuraki mo shinobureba omoishirazu to hito ya miruran
English Translation: Because I endure
both the sorrow of our bond
and your cold neglect,
might you look on me and think
that I understand nothing?
Meaning: Because I silently bear both the sorrows of our bond and your coldness, do you perhaps look at me and think I feel nothing at all?
Commentary: Book Fifteen Love Poems V 933

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The poem says: because I silently endure both the sorrows of our bond and your coldness, do you perhaps think I understand nothing? It sings of the helpless fear that one's own silent endurance, without a word of reproach, may be taken instead for dullness.

First line, "yo no naka no," means "of the bond between man and woman." Together with 930 and 931 in this book, it speaks of "yo no naka."
Second line, "uki mo tsuraki mo," means "both the sorrow and the coldness," repeating "mo" to set the two side by side.
Third line, "shinobureba," means "since I bear it in silence."
Fourth line, "omoishirazu to," means "as one who does not understand," with "omoishiru" meaning "to realize deeply."
Final line, "hito ya miruran," means "might the other see me so," concluding with the attributive of the present conjectural "ran" in answer to the binding particle "ya."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shui Wakashu
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