Ōkata no waga mi hitotsu no uki kara ni nabete no yo o mo uramitsuru kana - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

おほかたの我が身ひとつの憂きからに
なべての世をも怨みつるかな

Roma-ji: Ōkata no waga mi hitotsu no uki kara ni nabete no yo o mo uramitsuru kana
English Translation: Though for the most part
the sorrow is mine alone,
mine and no one else's,
even the whole wide world
I have come to resent.
Meaning: Though the sorrow is for the most part mine alone, I have come to resent even the whole wide world.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Love Poems V 953

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The poem says that though the sorrow is mostly my own alone, I came to resent even the whole world. Reflecting on a self that resented everything out of love's suffering, it sings of the heart that realizes this pain belongs, after all, to oneself alone.
The author, "Tsurayuki", is Ki no Tsurayuki, son of Ki no Mochiyuki. One of the compilers of the Kokinshū, he wrote its kana preface and also the Tosa Diary. He is one of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "ōkata no," means "for the most part."
Second line, "waga mi hitotsu no," means "of my one self alone." It shares the same words with the fourth line of 999 in this book, "waga mi hitotsu ni," and also echoes the final line of 980, "kokoro hitotsu ni."
Third line, "uki kara ni," means "because of the sorrow," with "kara ni" expressing cause. It shares with the first line of 945 in this book, "mi no uki o," the view of sorrow as belonging to oneself.
Fourth line, "nabete no yo o mo," means "even the whole world." Setting "waga mi hitotsu" in the second line against "nabete no yo" in the fourth, it places side by side the different scales of the self and the world.
Final line, "uramitsuru kana," means "how I have resented it," with "tsuru" the attributive of the perfective "tsu" and "kana" exclamatory. It is the same as the final line of 973 in this book, "uramitsuru kana."
Author: Ki no Tsurayuki
Source: Shui Wakashu
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